On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 12:52:25AM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > In case somebody wants to know my opinion on this (nobody wants, I know ;-)): > I think if we want to deliver the best distribution we can to our users > we should do something about the menu situation. Our menu system really sucks > compared to any other out there. I was tempted to say I disagree- then I realised I had no /firsthand/ experience of other systems, just that people who'd watched me install Debian liked the way the menu system seemed to work properly... > We don't have nice icons on the items and there is no translation. I know > both should be possible. I tried once and failed. The nice icons is simply because they aren't in teh packages. They *are* supported in the menu system. (See Apps->Editors->Emacs19, Apps->Sound->Aumix, Games->Adventure->NetHack etc). Translations are a major omission, though. > Back on track regarding the Gnome menu - I think we should make our > menu utility aware of the Gnome menus and include them automatically > so that the maintainer does not need to add another menu file while > the application has a Gnome menu included. This way we can also > leave out the Gnome applications from the Debian menu of the Panel > so there is no duplication anymore. Ungh, as someone pointed out, consistency is nice here- my WindowMaker menu and my Panel menu are very similar because they both represent the Debian menu structure- and I really like that. (It's also easier to implement, and the gnome-panel support for menu is enough of a hack as it is :}). JMHO SRH -- Steve Haslam http://www.arise.demon.co.uk/ steve@arise.demon.co.uk Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer araqnid@debian.org almost called it today, turned to face the void, numb with the suffering and the question- "Why am I?" [queensrÿche]
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