Some possible improvements (fwd)

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

Hi,

I've got permission from Lluis to quote him in public, so here we are ...

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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:23:24 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>
To: Lluis <xscript@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [cdd] Some possible improvements

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Lluis wrote:

> now that i'm having a look at cdd-install-helper, i've seen that every
> <dep>.txt on the documentation dir gets an entry on the menu, even if
> there's already a "manual" entry (one handwritten on the menu dir).
Do you mean by "manual" an entry you created in your ~/.menu directory?

> But i also noticed that no .html can appear on the menu as .txt do.
Currently not but perhaps it would be the best idea to switch completely
to html.

> I think it would be nice to have html and txt support on the menus.... well,
> the case is that the documentation i have is in html format :)
>
> Anyway, i've noticed that you are using pager to see the txt's, but it might
> be better to use sensible-pager instead of pager, as the former lets the
> user define the PAGER variable, and the other uses debian's alternatives
> system (only ~modifiable~ - is this the correct spelling? - by root, i
> think), and the same could go to sensible-editor vs. view (why use view
> instead of pager when the hint is different from the title? in my system
> view is vim) and (maybe) sensible-browser vs. www-browser.
I put this onto the TODO list.  It's a good idea.

Kind regards

         Andreas.