Re: Testing Menu managers in Debian

[Martin Quinson <Martin.Quinson@ens-lyon.fr>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:31:07PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Hello developers,
> 
> I have tested the support for the Debian menu system in window managers
> and menu managers. I have tested all the window managers in Debian/testing.
> 
> The full details are at <http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/wmbugs>.
> 
> A summary of the results:
> 
> --- Only aewm, fvwm95, uwm pass all the tests.
> 
> --- Too many menu managers do not support user defined menus entries (in
> ~/.menu) out of the box.
> 
> --- afterstep, kwin and flwm do not handle correctly / in menu titles.  
> 
> --- xfwm menus are scrambled during the test.
> 
> --- I have not been able to test xfwm because Debian menu entries are scrambled among others. 
> 
> --- Some window managers preprocess theirs config files with m4, and add menus via the
> m4 macro "include" (or "sinclude"). Problem is that the content of the included file
> get preprocessed by m4, which may cause bugs. 
> 
> Do you know a way to include a file with m4 as is (i.e. not being preprocessed) ?
> 
> Thanks to Herbert Xu for fixing mwm in unstable.


And what about translations ? At least some of the WM out there support menu
with several labels, based on environment variables. What about menu ?


Thanks, Mt.