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

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:40:13PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > 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.

>From my work with fvem, the primary issue seems to be that if every
time a menu is requested, the window manager needs to determine
whether the menu has changed, there is a significant performance hit.

I have no good suggestions of how to handle this, I am afraid.

   Julian

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