On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 04:07:23AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "G" == Gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > G> i'd like to see a simple (dialog/ncurses/plain text) program that > G> merely presents a menu of other config programs.. it doesn't appear in > G> the menus at all (since then it would be seen by all users), but > G> serves as a central directory for other config programs [snip] > An entry having "needs=vc" won't show up in the windowmamager's menu, > as the menu-methods for the window managers only use the "needs=text" > and "needs=X11" entries. > > So what if he uses a new thing "needs=configtool" and a menumethod > that only extracts these entries?
in which case, why use the menu system at all? (but then, i suppose "why not" is a valid argument too) if at some later date, you want to have both X11 and text config programs, how are you going to distinguish them? rename the "needs=" to configtool-X11 and configtool-text? it just doesn't seem necessary to use the menu system, when a simple "register-config" script could simply append a command and a label to a list (and at some later date maybe add X11/text/etc flags) the config program then simply presents this list and lets the user choose one -- - Gus
