Re: Menu-2.0, optimized menu tree, hints

[joost witteveen <joostje@cistron.nl>]

Je 1999/06/20(0)/13:06, Edward Betts montris sian geniecon skribante:
> On debian-policy, joost witteveen <joostje@cistron.nl> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I've just released menu-2.0. It has many new features, one of
> > wich is the automatic optimization of the menu tree, using 
> > something I've called "hints". This is what I want to start 
> > discussion about with this message.
> 
> Certianly interesting. The only change I could see in my menu was that
> X-Shells had disappeared with its contents scattered around the root menu, and
> the Screen menu had flatted itself.
> 
> Now my menu looks like this (in X11):
> 
> Apps            >
> Command Tool
> Games           >
> Screen          >
> Shell Tool 
> System          >
> Window Managers >
> Xterm
> 
> Would it be possible to group menu items that would be together, just do not
> put them in the menu? So my menu would become:


Well, as others noticed, that would loose the alphabetical ordering.
But that may be OK for some.

At the moment this isn't possible, but I do want to make this possible
(Was already on my todo-list for menu-2.0.0, but I removed that item
because I wanted to finally release menu-2.0).

The other option is to add a penalty for mixed menus, that is something
that I'll certainly also do.

joostje