Re: Install-*-menu policy
> Unless I missed an update, install-menu isn't yet used by the
> official fvwm2 package.
Yes, you didn't miss an update. I did send the fvwm2 maintainer
patches for it, though.
> Just to make things clear:
>
> * The current version of fvwm2 in rex has install-fvwm2menu,
> which works, and which a couple of packages already use
Well, it works only if fvwm2 happens to be installed before
the other packages that use it, or did I miss something?
[points I agree with very much deleted]
> I hope I have understood the situation clearly.
As least as clear as I understand it.
> Even X users might want to be able to use programs intended
> for text terminal, if no X version is available. So, for example,
> Pine could do this:
>
> install-menu text Apps/Net pine pine.xpm "Pine" "pine"
>
[..]
> Fvwm2's menu driver sees that only a text version exists, so it
> installs a menu entry that runs the following command:
>
> xterm -e pine
>
> It should be configurable to run rxvt instead. This means that
> Pine shouldn't do this as well:
>
> install-menu X Apps/Net pine pine.xpm "Pine" "xterm -e pine"
Yes, you're right!
I didn't include that in the patches for fvwm2, though (fvwm2 noticing
there isn't a "needs X", but is a "needs term", so let's use "term").
> We need at least three kinds of "needs":
>
> text needs a text terminal (VC, xterm, real terminal)
> X needs an X display
> svgalib needs a VC and svgalib
> Ian's quite busy, but he'll undoubtedly do something about it sooner
> or later. Anyway, it should be developed outside dpkg first, and only
> included in dpkg once it works.
I just uploaded "menu_0.0_i386.deb".
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