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Re: Bug#90867: Menu is more important than it would seem



On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:34:49PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.

It doesn't require menu, but that could be done with menu, with the advantage
of consistency with all the other menus.

> 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.

It seems wmaker does have a menu when menu isn't installed, it isn't
very useful but can run xterm and rxvt.

So it looks like menu needs to be added to a task package.  The sort of people
using task packages are the sort of people who would find menu useful. Any
suggestions which task(s) should depend on menu?



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