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On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 09:11, Svyatogor wrote: |
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> Hello Guys! |
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> After reading the discussion which followed after Heinrich's initial |
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> mail, I realised that a lot of you missunderstood the primary goal of |
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> our project. |
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> Goal 1: This is something everyone understood - create a common menu |
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> layout, which would be independent of the window manager. This point |
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> sound quite important for those people who use more than one WM. |
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> However, I pereceive it as a secondary goal. |
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> Goal 2: This is the major one. I have to refer to the experiesnse of |
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> using the offtopic OS (the on made by M$). When you install some |
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> application, you immediately see a menu entry in your start menu, and |
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> (in most cases) you don't have to search on your hard for the exe and |
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> add it manually. Unfortunately it hasn't been the case for most of |
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> the Linux systems. If I'm running KDE and install kde-app - it's |
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> fine. But if I install a non DE-specific tool I have to find (or |
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> guess) what is the name of the executable and add it to the menu |
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> myself. This is called user-*unfriendly*. Especially for new users |
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> who are just starting to use Gentoo. |
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But easy nonetheless. I recently emerged bcast200. No .desktop files |
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were installed, so no menu entry. I decided it belonged in |
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/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia so opened an existing .desktop file there |
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in kwrite, modified and saved it as bcast.desktop. |
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We can't make Gentoo like Windows. Gentoo users, however new, have to |
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be able to edit configuration files or they'd never be able to install |
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it in the first place. |
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My bad experience of Mandrake's menu implementation (copied from Debian) |
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influences my reaction to your proposals. There they decided to |
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disable kmenuedit and reroute all KDE menus into their own tree. I |
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will have nothing to do with any such interference to a good, working |
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menu system. |
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> Finally let me stress it out once again. The system is *completely* |
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> optional - you don't like it - don't run it. |
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Good. |
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Peter |
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Gentoo: Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) |
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kernel-2.4.22_pre2-gss i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ |
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