Re: icewm menu questions
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:35:26AM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote:
> So a pattern emerges (albiet sparse) suggesting that the app Debian
> Package maintainer is responsible for hooking all the Debian supported
> window managers and desktops for their supported package. Conversely,
> wm/desktop maintainers are responsible for dynamically building a menu
> that hooks all the currently installed apps on the machine. Is this
> how things work in Debian? No small task if it is.
There's a clever package called menu that mediates all of this. Each
window manager provides a "menu-method" that translates from a central
format to whatever it needs for its own menu system. Each package
providing a menu entry just writes one in this central format.
You can add your own entries this way, too, by editing files in
$HOME/.menu. Have a look in /usr/share/doc/menu for the documentation.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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