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 that they are optional (disabled by default) subcategories > within the menus.)
Interestingly hints seems to override section. Example which I noticed is xpvm which has: ?package(xpvm):\ needs="X11"\ hints="Parallel,Distributed,Virtual,PVM"\ section="Apps/Technical"\ title="xpvm"\ command="/usr/bin/xpvm" Prior to hints it appears, by itself, in Technical. Afterwards (for me) it appears, by itself, in Apps/Distributed > So far, most X11 clock programs now include the "Clocks" hint, and > most Gnome and KDE packages do or will include "Gnome" and "KDE" > hints, respectively. I have most (all as far I know) Gnome stuff installed from Potato but I didn't see any of the menus generate sub-menus. For me, though, Apps/Net and Apps/Tools always seem to be overfull. How about: Mail, News and Web hints for Apps/Net (the problem I see is some applications fit into multiple categories -- I haven't seen how menu handles that). I couldn't come up with any suggestions for App/Tools hints. One other hints I noticed was "3d" in the Games/Arcade. Perhaps recommend that as a hint for games which are 3d in nature (or use OpenGL?) > Since this all seems to be going quite well, I'd like to propose that > add these hints to our menu policy, and start accepting suggestions > for new hints here on -policy, much like we do with suggestions for > new categories. > > If no one has any strong objections, I'll write up a formal proposal > for this. Speak now or forever hold your peace. No objections but you may want to clarify the intent of Apps/Viewers. Mine cntains Electirc Eyes but it would seem to fit better in Apps/Graphic -- viewers is meant for text, yes? Anand
