Re: Menu hierarchie for different users and general user settings
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Andreas Tille wrote:
> interesting one for this kind of user. So I wonder if there could
> be installed a mechanism in the menu system which serves the
> following functionality:
>
> 1. list menuitems of all installed software (the state we have now)
> for the experienced user
[...]
This together with internationalisation seems to be a very difficult goal.
I would prefer to have language and more important advantage of a user not
as fixed values but values that can be modified by user in the menu.
A very convenient way would to have the normal all-and-every-thing menu as
standards and user-definable changes on a per user basis.
Perhaps a file like
---
GENERAL type child
GENERAL language german
INCLUDE xzy/exclude-non-free
RENAME_ITEM games Spielchen
EXCLUDE_ITEM games/uvw
INCLUDE_ITEM <Format wie in bisherigen Menues>
---
Where GENERAL ist just a kind of include /usr/lib/menus/stencil/$where/$what
and could be easily changed by a little programm.
(Or even the programm making the wm-configs out of this could have
a --temp-override language xzy, which could presented in a little
menuitem.)
It's advantage would be a very convenient way for the user to
change.
It's disadvantage would be the enourmous amount of time to recompile all
user-settings when the main-menu-database changes.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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