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From: Svyatogor <svyatogor@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Menu - Bash vs. Python Rule files
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:20:37
Message-Id: 200308141428.27523.svyatogor@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Menu - Bash vs. Python Rule files by Chris Gianelloni
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4 This is what Debian did and many people complain about this, cause they want
5 to be able to use KDE native menu system.
6 Answering your question 'Why should I modify every ebuild'. Not every, but
7 only the ones which provide some apps with UI. Secondly you don't *have to*.
8 If you want users of your app's to edit files themselves - fair enough.
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10 On Thursday 14 August 2003 13:56, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
11 > You don't. Read the part of my comment that I left in this message.
12 > Rather than add OUR menu system to /usr/kde/3.1/share/applnk, we should
13 > patch KDE/Gnome/*box/etc (actually quite simple) to use
14 > /usr/share/gentoo-menu or wherever we decide the Gentoo menu should go.
15 > This saves the problem of having to edit every ebuild right now to
16 > implement this, allows for a "Gentoo Menu" support which can easily be
17 > turned on or off via FEATURES, and gives us a single location for our
18 > entire menu structure, rather than duplicating our parsed menus all over
19 > the filesystem. After all, if I have Gnome, KDE, WindowMaker,
20 > AfterStep, and Fluxbox installed, the current proposal would have to
21 > create 5 separate menus and maintain them to keep everything accurate.
22 > Under my proposal, it would only have to maintain ONE and all 5 window
23 > managers would use it. At this point you can use ANY version of ANY
24 > spec we wish to support, and we don't have to wait on anyone else to
25 > support it.
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29 Sergey Kuleshov
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Menu - Bash vs. Python Rule files Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>