Application menus on window managers
IMO our experience with install-* programs which modify a central file
is that things go wrong, and that these schemes make it hard for the
sysadmin to reconfigure.
Instead, why don't we have a /etc/app-menu/menu.d directory where
packages can install and remove their menu entries ? After a package
has done this it can call run-parts /etc/app-menu/updaters.d to get
all the windowmanagers and so forth to rebuild appropriate files in
/var, automatically.
That way we have to write only n+m programs (n= number of apps, m=
number of managers) and the sysadmin can easily fiddle with things.
Ian.
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