Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> writes: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 06:23:17PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: >> Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> writes: >> >> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:35:20PM +0200, Thomas Funk wrote: >> >> Regenerate Menu(s) >> > >> > Why can this not be an on-disk cache or something instead of requiring the >> > user to care to regenerate the menus? >> >> The purpose of Regenerate Menus is to get a new menu after you've >> installed a new package. A cache would only make the problem worse. > > Actually, no. Effectively this is what Debian does with its menuing system > and it works just fine. I see no reason why we need an explicit > regeneration of these menus.
I'm not following. If I install a new package, say Evolution, it won't be in the Fvwm menus. Not until the menu is regenerated. How is a user supposed to get a new menu with Evolution in it? -- Dan Espen
