On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:59:39AM +0100, Robert McQueen scribbled: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 08:52:39AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > Do not make user preferences as an escape from actually making a decision. > > > > Surely working with the freedesktop.org vFolder standard and providing menus > > for non desktop-affiliated software by default is infinitely more useful to > > your users than yet another option (especially one that sounds so violent; > > no, I do not wish to flatten my OS, thank you). > > > > :-) > > > > - Jeff > > I was thinking about this. While people sit around pontificating on how > to make the menu system better, there is actually a standard which does > this all for us. The vfolder system allows you to specify general > categories which display in a way determined by the application in > question. GNOME2 and KDE3 already do it - RedHat added categories to > the vfolder files to distinguish X and terminal applications, and we can > extend this and make good use of it here. The vfolder system is flexible > and powerful. While it does provide the required level of flexibility and power, it will not define the menu layout for us - and that's what we are debating upon. Not how to do it technically, but what to put, where and why (or why not). I guess it's too early for technical discussions about how to do it. regards, marek
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