Re: PROPOSAL: a common menu system.
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Adrian Schroeter wrote:
> On 29 May 2000, Peter Makholm wrote:
> > Adrian Schroeter <adrian@suse.de> writes:
> > > okay, but there is no console application which has such a list, so
> > > menu-methods will not be there, when no X11 and no windowmanager is
> > > installed. maybe I am wrong ?
> >
> > Debian has a package called pdmenu which is a text based menu
> > system. It uses the same system for generating it's menus. (And no, it
> > won't use $xterm -c or something like it.)
>
> I did not know this. In this case /etc/ makes sense.
>
> > This could be done with an extension to the KDE/Gnome stuff. I would
> > prefer the debian menu system but thats only because I know it and I
> > don't know the Gnome/Kde solutions.
>
> I have no problem to extend our susewm to the format as described. But the
> primary documented solution for our users will be the kde/gnome files,
> because it seems easier for me. Maybe this changes when a X11 configure
> tool for this file exists.
>
> Is there any official document about this format ?
I assume you are talking about Debian's menu package. this is the source
package for it
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/source/admin/menu_2.1.5-3.tar.gz
to get an idea of how it developed, this is the changelog file
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=menu
shaya
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