On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 09:10:07AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Wouldn't be better to write a menu method that builds gnome-panel dir > > hierarchy (I don't know about kpanel) from the standard menus? (Like the > > other wm-specific methods do.) > > Sure, that's a fine and already-existing short-term solution for Debian > but it sucks compared to a standard menu system across several programs > and distributions. A standard menu system would be a root-cause solution > rather than a quick-fix: cut down on wheel reinvention and improve > compatibility (e.g. between rpm and .deb). I didn't think this was necessary or even a good idea until I finished reading this message. That was then. Now? Very good idea. For all the reasons you offer and the additional feature of being nice to the user. > For example, Gnome has a program to graphically edit the menus. It will > not work with the Debian menu system. In fact the Debian system will > probably break the GUI-created menus, or vice versa. It would be better to > have one menu format and one GUI menu editor. > > This is really a wider problem of every program inventing its own annoying > file format. This is my pet peeve. Perhaps the Gnome config libraries > should be enhanced a bit, put in a separate package and made available for > use in all kind of programs. I've been playing with gnome panel lately... Useful. I may stop using Wharf for it at this rate.
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