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Naively stepping into this fray, how does this menu system differ from |
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genmenu (x11-misc/genmenu) which has in my use generated some rather nice |
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menus for my not-big-boy wm's (*box, wmaker, etc)? |
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:00:13PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> The menu system is not about having the same menu in all windowmanagers as |
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> much as it is about having every application added to the menu of whatever |
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> windowmanager you are using. Independent of what kind of toolkit the |
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> application uses. A vanilla useflag would function like currently the foreign |
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> package flag does for the kdeadmin ebuild. That flag enables the compilation |
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> of a package manager that is standard but currently does not work well with |
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> gentoo (it being not an rpm based system). |
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> For the menu system it might be necessary to patch some windowmanagers to be |
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> able to use our menu's while keeping some compatibility with a situation |
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> where the menu manager is not installed. Those changes are normally small and |
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> localised, but generally change some part of the plumbing of such a program |
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> while keeping generally the same behaviour. If you want to hack with a |
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> windowmanager yourself those changes might be confusing and hence the |
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> "vanilla" flag. |
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