Bug#525488: O: 9menu -- Creates X menus from the shell
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 04:50:37PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> > The maintainer of 9menu Andrew Stribblehill <ads@debian.org> seems to no
> > longer be active and attempts to contact him have failed. Therefore I
> > am orphaning this package now.
>
> Given that we have dmenu in the dwm-tools which does exactly
> the same, can we just remove this package?
Just a short correction: Not dmenu could be a reason for dropping
9menu but its fork ratmenu could be.
dmenu works and looks differently. I use both dmenu and ratmenu and
they have completely different layout, different way of being called
and different "finger feel".
But due to being a fork, ratmenu works and looks like 9menu. It's also
commandline compatible and therefore a direct drop-in replacement. The
biggest (if not only relevant) difference is missing mouse support in
ratmenu by purpose. The remainder are AFAICS only different default
values for some options plus new features in ratmenu. (Please correct
me if I'm wrong here.)
So if someone insists on that, he should adopt 9menu or convince the
ratmenu authors/maintainers to include mouse support again. Everyone
else should be happy with ratmenu, too.
Regards, Axel
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Axel Beckert - abe@deuxchevaux.org, abe@noone.org - http://noone.org/abe/
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