Re: Testing Menu managers in Debian

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 04:10:56PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> Bill Allombert wrote on Wed Feb 20, 2002 um 02:31:07PM:
> 
> > --- Only aewm, fvwm95, uwm pass all the tests.
> 
> Blah. What does make you think that a window manager must support
> shell specific chars? IMHO it is not appropriate to use anything which
> cannot be parsed as-is in the exec(3) call. Packages which use backquote
> hacks should get the bug reports, not the window managers.

Halb. Read the Debian Menu System Manual, section 3.1

   command="/usr/bin/gnuplot"  the command to run.
          
It is called "command" so usually this means that a shell command is allowed.
Also read what I wrote in section Conclusion

* The Test backquote test is probably too harsh. 

If you believe the definition of command is too loose, please fill a bug report
against the menu package.

Example of menu with backticks include  'xpenguins':

?package(xpenguins):needs="x11" section="Games/Toys" \
        title="xpenguins - stop" command="kill -TERM `pidof xpenguins`"

Regards,

Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>