I forwarded this message yesterday but it did not seem to make it - sympa doesn't like attachments? Anyway, here's it again... Ximian might after all be supporting Mandrake's menu system in the future. Nice ... :) Regards, Michel --- Mark Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From Mark Gordon Thu Mar 8 16:26:40 2001 > > In my opinion, the real issue preventing our better > support of Mandrake in the > past is that we didn't have any Mandrake enthusiasts > on staff. We hired one > a few months back, and he spends as much time as > we'll let him making Ximian > GNOME work better on Mandrake. I'll make a note of > this particular flaw and see > to it that the existing packages get fixed in time. > > -Mark Gordon > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:11:48AM +0000, Michèl > Alexandre Salim wrote: > > --- Mark Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There > > are a couple things lacking in our current > > > Mandrake 7 packages > > > that prevent their working properly on Mandrake > 7.2. > > > > This might just be me being fussy about what is > > 'proper' but Ximian packages in the past (when > they > > are Helix packages) did not integrate well with > > Mandrake's menu system (lifted from Debian, but > > integrated much more cohesively). > > > > Since supporting this menuing system can be done > with > > just the addition of one descriptor file per menu > > entry - menudrake automatically removes the > old-style > > menu entries when it regenerates the menu - what > is > > the *real* issues against supporting it? A problem > > getting the icons to match perhaps? > > > > Having tried to launch KDE2 apps from the GNOME > menu > > without any success - funnily launching them > manually > > from a terminal works just fine - I am all for > > Mandrake's solution, however non-standard it is. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michel > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at > http://mail.yahoo.co.uk > > or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
