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Bug#400234: ITP: tdmenu -- tdmenu offers a new menu-method for the menu package



Package: wnpp
Owner: Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : tdmenu
  Version         : 0.2.0
  Upstream Author : Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>
* URL             : http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tdmenu
  SRC repository  : deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main
  dget            : http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tdmenu/tdmenu_0.2.0.dsc
* License         : Artistic
  Section         : misc
  Description     : tdmenu offers a new menu-method for the menu package
                    and fvwm to beautify the nacked looking menus with
		    icons and sidebars in 33 languages currently.

I am using fvwm2 since 7 1/2 years and have beautified all of my menus 
with sidebars and icons.  Now I have considered to add icons and
localized Sidebars to the Debian-Menu-System.  This was done by heavy
rewriting the default /etc/menu-methods/fvwm

I do not know, whether other WindowManagers support icons or sidebars
but it can added easily at request if I know, how the menus are working.

The soucre "tdmenu" create three type of binary packages.

    1)    tdmenu            A meta package which install ALL
    2)    tdmenu-common     Contain the "update-tdmenus" executable and
                            the icons and the default english sidebars.
    3)    tdmanu-<locale>   Each package contain a language set since I
                            am sure no one like to install 39 MByte per
			    default.

Since I do not wat to do the job twice, the tanslations <locale> are
taken from the "menu" package (Attention: "ku" is incomplete)

With the release 0.2.0 "tdmenu" support following 33 languages:

    ar be bg ca cs da de el en eo es eu fi fr gl he hr hu id
    it ja ko ku lt nb ne nl nn pt ru sv tr zh_CN

Future releases (depends on my free time) will support the rest of the
languages like:

    dz km pl pt_BR ro sk th tl uk vi wo zh_TW

Note for Mentors/Developers:

    I am not able to create dz (Bhutan) and km (Khmer) since it seems
    there is a bug in the fontpackages any hints what can I do?

And last not least, the package will reach version 1.0.0 if
all languages supported by the "menu" package are added.

Please note:

Some Languages need work since I have not a very big experience with
fonts and in some languages they look a little bit ugly.  If you like
to see font changes in some <locale> please let me now, WITH the
appropriated Debian font package and the name of the desired font of
a size of arround 13-17 (14) pixels.

Last note:

The package version 0.2.0 is installed on Sarge, Etch and Sid
and works (currently) properly without any errors.

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

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