Re: policy for menu hints

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:11:51AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > Are you also proposing that the hints default be hint_optimse=true? Not at this point, possibly not ever. The fact that hint optimization can cause items to jump from one menu to another as (other) packages are added and removed is

Re: policy for menu hints

2000-11-14 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:43:24AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Anand: if you're going to set Reply-to: on your email, try not to make > typos -- the message I'm replying to had "debian-polict" instead of > "debian-policy". Apologies. > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 07:39:25PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrot

Re: policy for menu hints

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Waters
Anand: if you're going to set Reply-to: on your email, try not to make typos -- the message I'm replying to had "debian-polict" instead of "debian-policy". On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 07:39:25PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > Interestingly hints seems to override section. Example which I noticed > is

Re: policy for menu hints

2000-11-14 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:25:26PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Hi, > > With a fairly small amount of work, I have managed to get a couple of > menu hints semi-standardized within Debian. (See the documentation on > the menu package if you don't know what menu hints are. The quick > answer is th

policy for menu hints

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Waters
Hi, With a fairly small amount of work, I have managed to get a couple of menu hints semi-standardized within Debian. (See the documentation on the menu package if you don't know what menu hints are. The quick answer is that they are optional (disabled by default) subcategories within the menus.