[Cooker] FVWM2 suggestion

[Drew S]

Hello all!

I really like the cooker fvwm2 that has had menudrake updates included. 
 Thanks you!  The only problem that I can conceive of is that after you 
edit system.fvwm2rc-menu you do have to run menudrake to have the 
changes put into system.fvwm2rc or not run menudrake but edit both 
system.fvwm2rc-menu and system.fvwm2rc every time (if you just edit 
system.fvwm2rc then next time you *do* run menudrake you will lose any 
changes made as it reverts back to the contents of system.fvwm2rc-menu + 
menu).  The other problem is that with /etc/menu-methods/fvwm2 having 
the lines:

rcfile=       "system.fvwm2rc";
examplercfile="system.fvwm2rc-menu";
that now we get a system.fvwm2rc added to the user's ~/.fvwm directory. 
 That is out of step with fvwm's conventions, which would have you use 
the file ~/.fvwm2rc for a user config file.  Here's a couple suggestions 
of how to fix this problem.  Both rely on a simple bit of functionality 
from fvwm2-
adding a line like so to system.fvwm2rc to source another file:

Read menu

If this suggestion is taken on it will allow to change config file 
permanently & not have to rerun Menudrake.  Here's 2 ways to do this:

1...Cleanest
  A.Make /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc have only these 3 lines:
      Read system.fvwm2rc-config
      Read menu
      Read system.fvwm2rc-menu
    To do this we would leave the static menu stuff from the current 
system.fvwm2rc-menu there & put all the config stuff in a new file 
system.fvwm2rc-config.

  B.Change /etc/menu-methods/fvwm2 by commenting out last 2 lines:
      #rcfile=       "system.fvwm2rc";
      #examplercfile="system.fvwm2rc-menu";
2...Easiest & more robust
  A.Make system.fvwm2rc like on 9.1 release but with this before rest of
    menu part that doesn't change:
      Read menu
  B.Change /etc/menu-methods/fvwm2 by commenting out last 2 lines:
      #rcfile=       "system.fvwm2rc";
      #examplercfile="system.fvwm2rc-menu";
  C.Get rid of system.fvwm2rc-menu
If you feel this would be a good change, I'd be happy to send in the 
changes needed- really, the couple of changes are very small...

p.s. Another nice addition would be to change Root Menu title to 
"Mandrake" or "Mandrake-FVWM" in /etc/menu-methods/fvwm2 instead of 
"Root Menu"

Thanks for your great work on the best distribution out there!

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