Re: [PROPOSED] moving the menu hierarchy into debian policy

[Laurent Martelli <martelli@iie.cnam.fr>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net> writes:

  Chris> Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

  >> * You need to limit menus to no more than 15 items, 10 is
  >> better. Otherwise they won't fit on some screens.

  Chris> This is a whole 'nuther ball of wax.  Joost mentioned this
  Chris> when I discussed menus with him.  The problem is that you
  Chris> cannot predict which packages will be installed, so you need
  Chris> to write some sort of intelligent heuristics.  If you just
  Chris> create a wider, deeper set of categories, you're going to end
  Chris> up with all sorts of nearly-empty menus on a lot of peoples
  Chris> systems (most?).  Which is Not Good.  There is a *lot* of
  Chris> work involved in trying to achieve this one.  Therefore, I
  Chris> suggest we ignore this issue until we come up with a Good
  Chris> scheme.

I think it'd be better to fix window managers so that they can cope
with long menus, à la WindowMaker for instance. A decent window
manager should be able to do this.

Laurent