Submitted 13-Jul-00 by Guillaume Cottenceau:
> We've been criticized a lot for that menu system. Of course mainly by KDE
> or Gnome users, because on these desktops the menu system was standardly
> quite usable, compared to the one in icewm and so on.
I think that part of the problem is that not only do many apps come
with predefined menu entries for Gnome/KDE and not our menu system,
but when we use another variety (i.e. not mandrakeized) version of the
window managers we no longer get menu entries with newly installed
mandrakeized apps.
Perhaps a contrib package could be made available that has the
appropriate scripts from /etc/menu-methods so that those who run a
vanilla or Helix Gnome, compile KDE themselves, or what have you can
still benefit from the menu system. This package would also make
"our" menu system available for users of other distros. I'm sure we
all agree that if we want this system to become stndard it has to be
accessible.
One point that bugs me about the menu system is that the docs say that
I can put menu entries in ~/.menu, but in practice this does not seem
to work :/
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