On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:13:47 +0000 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> <[email protected]> said:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Recently I had to do a new install and that's the time when you
>> realize shortcomings exist :-)  For instance I use Gentoo and we don't
>> ship gnome-menus or kde-similar by default, so the result is an empty
>> applications menu.
>>
>> Google reminded me of
>> http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php/E17_and_Efreet with hints on
>> how to hack around it. Not good if we're willing to release.
>>
>> Given that pulling in gnome-menus will bring in lots of unneeded stuff
>> just for a handful of .directory or .menu, why not create our own and
>> install it with E17 or Efreet? We can get either Gnome or KDE files
>> and derive our own, that is always installed and we default to it.
>>
>> Comments, suggestions?
>
> the problem is.. for this file to work it has to be installed out-of-prefix..
> so we can install it but.. we'd put it in PREFIX/etc/xdg/menus
> (ie /usr/etc/xdg/menus or /usr/local/etc/xdg/menus). you'd have to symlink it
> from there... but e's menu config panel and wizard will pick up these 
> locations
> just fine. if we call it enlightenment.menu or such... no problems. of course
> user will have to select it in wizard or config gui... but its a few clicks
> away.

I don't see why, user can install --sysconfdir or even append more
search paths to $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS


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