On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 12:16:36AM +0200, Juergen A. Erhard wrote: > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org> writes: > > Michael> If I don't miss the point, it is all nice by debian. The > Michael> user can make overwrite the menu items and the menu > Michael> methods in this home dir and can make a private > Michael> update-menu run only for his menues. > > Oh yes, he/she can... but it's not *nice*. Or maybe I'm just dumb: > but how do you tell the system that for WindowMaker, the Exit items > are in submenu `Exit' in the root menu (root->Exit->Exit Session). > *Without* adding a user-specified menu item at that point (which, I > think, wouldn't even be possible for this). I am not a WindowMaker expert, but normal you can make own Menus (Edit .windowmakerrc or like.. ; I don´t know) > And even if this is possible... how do you do this without reading > tons of docs and putting some (from a newbie's POV) cryptic strings of > characters into some file? > > Even if all the customization I want is possible, it's not > *nice*... and much as I love the CLI, and loathe M$ for making people > believe that a gooey (;-) make any (even the most complicated) task > childs play, I still *do* like a good graphical tool for things that > have to do with GUI stuff. (Would anyone want to do graphic design > with a CLI tool *only*? "Move 34,34. Paint 4. Convolve." > Ewwwww...) If you find click, mouse etc nice: - write a windowmaker configtool - pay someone to write something - search for a tool - wait for a nice tool for german: > Michael> Grisu > > Na, bist du denn schon Feuerwehrmann? ;-) (Sorry, couldn't resist...) Ja, bin ich. (Unterbrandmeister) > PS: No, contrary to what some may think, I do *not* want to over-GUI > everything on Linux. I *love* ascii config files (and `.emacs'...). > I do *not* want all the Windows DAUs on Linux... I like text config too. This is unix. You have textfiles and you _can_ edit this textfiles with ´nice´ GUI-tools. But you needn´t. Grisu -- Michael Bramer -- a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "A system without Perl is like a hockey game without a fight." -- Mitch Wright
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