Re: Bug#90867: Menu is more important than it would seem
Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:38:21PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > 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).
>
> Yes, but I use menu to start the xterm ;)
>
> > It might make sense for _some_ of the window manager and other programs that
> > use menu to provide menus to reccommend menu.
>
> pdmenu for instance :P
No, pdmenu was exactly what I was thinking of when I said "some, not
all". I have heard from hundreds of sysadmins who use pdmenu, and almost
all of them use it to present some simple menu of a limited set of
services to users of a large installation. So I think that's probably a
more common use of pdmenu than anything else, and that use does not
require menu.
I think that window manager without any useful menus otherwise (where
useful is defined as letting you run at least an xterm..) should
probably reccommend it though.
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see shy jo
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