Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus?

[Noah Justin Norris]

I think a menu system would be nice , also a way to port menu's to other 
systems (ie i have many gentoo systems it took me days to set up menus on one 
system ) just as a side note kde dont like sertain things removed from its 
menu system or put in different folders (ie for example put preferences in 
another directory launch kde control center notice theres nothing there 
anymore (( i had to use samba to copy the menu system back from a working kde 
system lol )) i think a common menu editing tool would be nice / and ebuilds 
that add menu enteries. well im no programer but i would help out in anyway 
possible :) 

On Wednesday 24 July 2002 03:08 pm, Tom Philbrick wrote:
>Searching the mailing list archives, I see that back in April someone
> asked about automatic menus. One reply said that it was already being
> worked on, while others said the opposite. Is anyone currently working
> on an automatic menu system for gentoo, and if so, what is its status?
>
> I ask because I am in the process of porting the debian menu system over
> to gentoo, but I realized I should stop and see if it is worth the
> effort. I have the program working as far as I can tell, although I
> haven't done much testing yet. It still needs a lot of work, but most of
> that is tailoring it to gentoo rather than debian (rewriting
> documentation, and making my hacks less of a hack). The build isn't
> pretty, I see now why debian is not a source distro, but it works for
> now and I'm working on cleaning it up.
>
> For those of you that have never used debian (or mandrake, as menudrake
> uses the debian menu system under the hood) you can read a good overview
> of it at: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/index.html
> For the system to work, it would require that every package that wants
> to use a menu must install a menu-method that describes how to generate
> a menu for that program (these can me borrowed from debian, or written
> from scratch). It also would require that every application that wanted
> to be in a menu include a simple menu file that describes what the menu
> entry should be. Yes that means a lot of packages would need to be
> updated, but the menufiles take about 30 seconds to write, and are
> simple enough for anyone to do.
>
> So what should I do? Post a new package bug now? Wait until it is
> completely done? Wait until a better time? Give up in favor of a more
> mature, or better, solution?
>
> -Tom Philbrick
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