Re: [gentoo-dev] [PROPOSAL] Menu system for all gentoo wm's.

[Svyatogor]

> I've only skimmed over your proposal so far. btw I didn't see a description
> of how you'll actually make all the WMs aware of the menu. Do you want to
> autogenerate, from the central menu tree, a custom-format menu tree for
> every installed WM?

Exactly. The central menu tree will be quite generic and then the script will, 
based on it, generate the menus for each WM. The system will be aware of a wm 
through the .menu file in the rules direcotry, which will contain a bunch of 
sh functions to generate the proper menu for a specific wm.

>
> Anyway, what about the freedesktop.org standard for .desktop files? It has
> some very nice features such as multiple categories per item,
> multilpe-language descriptions, etc. More importantly, both kde and gnome
> will use that standard in their next releases (maybe gnome already does,
> not sure). So why don't we build on top of that? Other people in other
> distros, as well as the developers of various packages and of WMs other
> than kde and gnome, will surely be adding support for it in the future. Why
> do we want yet another custom system? How is it better than what
> freedesktop.org has (with perhaps portage-centric tools written to make
> things easier)?

I'm not really sure what you mean. But if I got it right I guess we could use 
their specification for the central menu, while it does not change the idea 
of generating wm-specific menu through the foo.menu  script. At leasr while 
99% of window managers do not support it directly :)

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Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@g.o>
Let the Force be with us!


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