On 29 May 2000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Thorsten Kukuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When you not agree to use .kdelnk/.desktop files, we will add this > > format to our tool. But it makes more sense to use .kdelnk/.desktop for me. > > Well, you want to use .kdelnk .desktop, but it's a completely different > format. Kde/Gnome to build his groups by the directory, something like
Yes but is common standard (for 98% ;-) > When menu specify an entry like > section=Applications/Productivty > and after the update-menus will create for gnome/kde (or nothing for > other wm'm) the directory's. yes, but why not use alsa a directory structure. This is much easier to handle for the user, I guess ? > > maybe /etc/X11/menu-methods should be used to be FHS compliant. > > Like Peter said it's not only for X11 but also for console application > (but well it's launched via a $xterm -c "" so it's semi X11). 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 ? > > > It's dynamic i18nable and user-wide-configurable. > > good idea again. Maybe we should define a common menu structure. > > Do you mean structure by groups ? i can post the groups we use for > Mandrake for draft. We are using these. I have no problem to change these, but we do want a structure deeper than 2 levels (we had a long discussion about that in our company ;-) ./Administration ./Administration/Configuration ./Administration/Tools ./Administration/Viewer ./Administration/unspec ./Arts ./Arts/unspec ./Business ./Business/Database ./Business/Editors ./Business/Planner ./Business/unspec ./Communication ./Communication/Internet-Tools ./Communication/Plugins ./Communication/WWW ./Communication/unspec ./Development ./Development/Debugger ./Development/GUI ./Development/IDE ./Development/Tools ./Development/unspec ./Documentation ./Documentation/HowTo ./Documentation/Kernel-Docs ./Documentation/LDP ./Documentation/Programming ./Documentation/unspec ./Games ./Games/Action ./Games/Arcade ./Games/Board ./Games/Fun ./Games/Logic ./Games/Puzzle ./Games/unspec ./Medicine ./Medicine/unspec ./Multimedia ./Multimedia/CD ./Multimedia/Graphics ./Multimedia/Sound ./Multimedia/Video ./Multimedia/unspec ./Network ./Network/Administration ./Network/Controlling ./Network/Tools ./Network/unspec ./Science ./Science/unspec ./System ./System/Emulator ./System/Info ./System/Shells ./System/Tools ./System/WM ./System/unspec ******************************************************************************** Adrian Schröter SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeckerstr. 10, 90443 Nuernberg, Germany Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
