> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) writes: > > > It seems to me that you are wrong, since when new packages are installed, > > update-menus considers the users who run update-menus as well. > > I am saying that on the basis of the following lines (from > > /usr/doc/menu/html/ch5.html): > > [snip] > > > Am I right ? > > One of us should just try it and see. >
I am wrong. I just tried it (unless there is some cron script, or something else, that I couldn't find although I looked for). The users customizations do not get updated even when the sytem menu does. > But the reason I don't think it will update individual users' menus is > that when I run it, all the menus get put in ~/.fvwm2/<whatever>. > When root runs it, the menus go into /etc/X11/fvwm2/<whatever>. If > something changes because a new package is installed, the files in > /etc/X11/fvwm2/ will be changed, but the old files in ~/.fvwm2/ will > still contain the old data, and will override the new data, until that > user runs update-menus again. > Should this behavior of the update-menus be changed ? Perhaps update-menus should keep a list of the users that run it on their home dir ? As a first step, perhaps users (at least those with a menu customizations) should be email-ed to let them know that the system menu has been changed ? BTW: 1) Is it my bad English, or does /usr/doc/menu/html/ch5.html indeed imply that users customizations are getting updated in these circumstances ? 2) Maybe dpkg should automatically email-ed all the users about software changes ? (which will be added to the long list of dpkg wishes)