Re: Changes to menu packgae
> joost witteveen:
> > The _title_ ("The Linux Dos Emulator") can indeed have spaces. But the
> > _section_ (Apps/Emulators) wasn't designed to have spaces. For example,
> > for the 9wm window manager, the section name becomes a function name
> > in the /etc/X11/9wm/system.9wmrc bash script, and I'm not sure function
> > names can have spaces in them (just tried, failed). And I _guess_
> > most other window managers would accept spaces in the section names, as
> > long as you put quotes around the names, but probably not all.
> > At the moment, no quotes are put around the names, so I'm absolutely
> > sure every window manager is going to break. Just try it.
>
> Maybe a workaround to this problem would be to translate spaces to `_' when
> the title of the menu is being translated into the function name?
Yes, possible. I'm just saying that at the moment it will fail. But
sure, with the new menu-1.0 (I'm working on it, really, its getting
closer, but it isn't moving as fast as I hoped) that (doing " "->"_")
should be possible indeed.
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joost witteveen joostje@debian.org
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