On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:05:51AM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 20:56:23 -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote:
> > This generates 2 menu entries in my Apps/Net menu, rather than one. Which
> > is correct, "Web Browser" or "Web browsers"? -- I guess I'd vote for the
> > former.
>
> Given the precedent of "Apps", "Games", "Databases", "Editors" etc., my vote
> goes to the plural.
The following shell script can be used to find all hints
of all installed packages:
#! /bin/sh
# extract-hints - extract hint values from Debian menu files
# Copyright 2001 Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>
# This script may be distributed under the GPL
systemhintdir=/usr/lib/menu
etchintdir=/etc/menu
outfile=/tmp/extract-hints.$$
rm -f $outfile
touch $outfile
trap "rm -f $outfile" 0
# gather data
for name in $(find $systemhintdir -type f \! -name README)\
$(find $etchintdir -type f \! -name README); do
sed -n -e "s/ / /g" \
-e ": START" \
-e "/\\\\$/ N" \
-e "s/ *\\\\\\n */ /g" \
-e "t START" \
-e "/hints/ p" $name >>$outfile
done
# extract hints
echo " count hint"
sed -n -e 's/.*hints="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' \
-e 's/.*hints=\([^ ]*\) .*/\1/p' $outfile \
| sed $'s/,/\\\n/g' | sort | uniq -c
At my system it outputs
count hint
5 Admin
1 Bitmap
1 Bug reporting
4 Calculators
1 Characters
3 Clocks
1 Color
3 Config
1 DVI
1 Debuggers
1 Dictionary
1 Drawing
1 English
1 Environments
2 File managers
2 Fonts
1 German
30 Gnome
1 Graphs
2 Images
3 Mail
8 Monitoring
1 News
1 PDF
2 Player
1 PostScript
1 Screenshot
3 Selectors
1 Terminal
4 Text
1 Translation
1 Troff
1 Vector
1 Web Browser
1 Web Browser Manual
4 apt
So currently singular and plural forms are mixed.
The menu policy really should include some hints about hints.
Jochen
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