Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: I sangged the below from the Caldera mailing list. It describes a method that Red Hat has come up with so that packages can add themselves to the menus of different window managers when the package is installed. It is GPLed and looks like a good idea. Debian already has

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I sangged the below from the Caldera mailing list. It describes a method that Red Hat has come up with so that packages can add themselves to the menus of different window managers when the package is installed. It is GPLed and looks like a good idea. Debian already has the excellent menu

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: I sangged the below from the Caldera mailing list. It describes a method that Red Hat has come up with so that packages can add themselves to the menus of different window managers when the package is installed. It is GPLed and looks like a good idea. Debian

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: How do you make the debian menus work with a text display? I have never seen such a menu. What command do you run do display such a menu on a text terminal session? You use a program such as pdmenu[1], which displays menus on a text display. It's a debian package, install

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Adam Shand
If anyone here is known on the Caldera/Red Hat lists we should ask them to post a follow up to the original message. If we could get some element of standarization between Debian/Red Hat/Caldera it would be [IMHO] a Good Thing. Someone want to voluenteer? Adam.

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: Hey! Way cool! I had pdmenu but had never used it. Now ... if only more programs put themselves into the menuing system ... :( File wishlist bugs, and upgrade to hamm, which has far more programs using it than did bo (if you're still using bo, that is..). -- see shy

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Shand wrote: If anyone here is known on the Caldera/Red Hat lists we should ask them to post a follow up to the original message. If we could get some element of standarization between Debian/Red Hat/Caldera it would be [IMHO] a Good Thing. Someone want to voluenteer? Not me, but

Re: In the interests of standardation ...

1997-12-29 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote: George Bonser wrote: Hey! Way cool! I had pdmenu but had never used it. Now ... if only more programs put themselves into the menuing system ... :( File wishlist bugs, and upgrade to hamm, which has far more programs using it than did bo (if