Re: Debian menu policy an impediment to innovation?

[Dan Car <Daniel.Car@cox.net>]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 12:08 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 09:29:07PM -0700, Dan Car wrote:
> > What do you think about updating debian menu policy to say something
> > about allow a GUI app to update the menus? There is nothing in the
> > current debian menu policy that stops this, but there isn't anything in
> > there that makes it simple either.
> > 
> > My personal opinion is that menu structure is far too dynamic,
> > customizable, and personal to be put in a policy document at this point.
> > What if someone wants to implement menus that are dynamic based on use?
> > 
> > What do you think?  Is there any plans to support user editable menus?
> 
> Hello Dan,
> 
> In case this is not clear: the debian menu policy only cover menu
> entries file provided for use in the Debian menu generated by the menu
> package, see <http://packages.debian.org/menu> and 
> <http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/>.
> It only covers the sections stored in the menu file, not the layout used
> by the program displaying the menu.
> 
> This system provide both system-wide and user-wide override for the
> menu.
> 
> What specifically do you want to do ?
> 

O.K. thanks for the clarification.  I'm wondering when we will have user
editable menu in Gnome.