Re: Default menu entries are deprecated, 2nd call.
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:41:47PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 07:11:07PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I question whether menu entries for shells are a useful thing to have.
> > Does anyone actually use these?
>
> People probably use the XShells, and indeed an x-terminal-emulator is a
> prerequisite for the shells to be listed, but I can still see how someone
> would want to have each shell listed, otherwise there's not much point to
> the whole Shells subsection. While that subsection exists, each of those
> should be in their own package, like e.g. zsh has its one.
I guess that I question the utility of the Shells subsection, then. :-)
Someone who is interested in trying out different shells would certainly be
comfortable typing them at the command line rather than selecting from a
menu.
> > Same here...isn't gpm meant to run as a daemon?
>
> See /usr/share/menu/default/gpm -- the menu entry calls gpmconfig, which
> is (vaguely) useful.
Vaguely, indeed...console jockeys probably prefer to run this from the
command line as well.
> > > hello
> >
> > I don't think anyone will miss this one.
>
> Agreed! :)
Though, now that I think about it, hello is meant to serve as a packaging
example, and so this might be useful in that context. I retract my comment
above; I think that a menu entry should be added to the hello package.
> > > lilo
> >
> > Likewise.
>
> Like gpm, this one calls liloconfig.
mumble mumble...
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- mdz
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