On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:37:59 -0500 Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org> wrote: > George has added every single keyword I've suggested to him with no > hassle whatsoever (although you'll have to read the XDG mail archives > to find the changes... not posted yet on the website). And Debian (or > any other vendor) can specify additional ones, just by prefixing them > with X-Debian-. On the other hand, I don't want a lot of new, ad-hoc > menu categories being added in 17 different directions. Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of after the spec was widely used, deployed, and relied upon :) I wouldn't want a lot of d-hoc additions, either, really. But from an architectural point of view, saying in the spec "you must use only keywords in this list", it means that implementations _will_ assume that there are no other categories; so as soon as we want to add one, we've got pain and displeasure. Yeah yeah, I know about X-*. I suppose I can be happy with X-Debian-, though :) (Again, just like to stress that I'm not suggesting we add stuff willy-nilly ;) > Well, the Group keyword tries to resolve some of this difficulty, if > you have a lot of menu entries. (Note there is also a > "TerminalEmulator" keyword, which will handle things in the current > XShells menu.) Did notice that, yep. Not really "bash", though. > I also intend to allow people to manipulate the hierarchy that is > output. Well, that's the entire idea of using a keyword-based approach, right? (ie: populating the hierarchy differently for different target audiences; for instance, two menu-methods may turn out not only different file formats, but different hierarchy layouts) -- ________________________________________________________________________ \ David B. Harris, Systems administrator | http://www.terrabox.com / / eelf@sympatico.ca, elf@terrabox.com | http://eelf.ddts.net \ \======================================================================/ / Clan Barclay motto: Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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