Re: The mechanism triggering the updating of the menu

2012-03-14 Thread Jason Hsu
Thanks for your suggestions. I've finally settled on a solution - the antiX Linux solution, minus the scripts for changing the menu theme. Special thanks to anticapitalista and his antiX Linux team for creating *.deb files for antiX Linux solutions. Even when I don't use the *.deb file direct

Re: The mechanism triggering the updating of the menu

2012-03-14 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 20:36 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > Exactly how do Linux distros automatically update their menus every time you > install or remove a program? Most of them inotify on /usr/share/applications, at least that's what gnome-menus does. This process is of course full of race conditi

The mechanism triggering the updating of the menu

2012-03-03 Thread Jason Hsu
Exactly how do Linux distros automatically update their menus every time you install or remove a program? In the process of transforming Linux Mint Debian Edition into Swift Linux, I replace GNOME with IceWM and ROX pinboard. The original LMDE setup automatically updated the GNOME menus. Once