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



On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Britton wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > On 24-Mar-01, 16:00 (CST), Malcolm Parsons
> > <malcolm@ivywell.screaming.net> wrote:
> > > 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,
> >
> > Yes.

Agreed. Menu IS a valuable part of Debian, and it should be priority standard.

> intuitive.  They often require window manager restarts to work after
> package installation/removal, which is generally a confusing suprise to

Only on broken window-managers (IMHO), or if the packages providing menu
entries are not calling update-menus (which is a bug, AFAIK).  Try it under
WindowMaker.

> users who depend on menus.  They should not be enshrined as standard.

Nah, fix the broken window managers to properly support dynamic menus; that
makes far more sense.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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