Re: Bug#90867: Menu is more important than it would seem
Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 09:27:21PM +0100, joost witteveen wrote:
> > On a newly-installed Debian system, menu is not installed by default or by
> > suggestion with any windowing system. Could it possibly be upgraded to a
> > higher priority so it is seen more often, have recommends from
> > task-gnome-*/task-kde-*/the window managers, or at least have a description
> > which tells users that more clearly explains that it creates a menu in
> > addition to whatever menu might already exist? Using Gnome, much of the
> > installed software does not get into a menu without menu installed.
>
> I agree, menu is one of the great features of debian (along with alternatives,
> doc-base, and the mime stuff). It should be Priority: standard, and any package
> containing a menu-method should Recommend: menu.
Requiring reccommends of menu is far too strong.
The `Recommends' field should list packages that would be found
together with this one in all but unusual installations.
-- policy
It is not at all unusual for people to run some game, or xterm, or whatever
from the command line, without picking it off of a menu (proof: this is unix).
QED.
It might make sense for _some_ of the window manager and other programs that
use menu to provide menus to reccommend menu. Some, not all. Of course,
some already do.
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see shy jo
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