On Mon, 29 May 2000, Adrian Schroeter wrote:
> On 29 May 2000, Peter Makholm wrote: > > Adrian Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > okay, but there is no console application which has such a list, so > > > menu-methods will not be there, when no X11 and no windowmanager is > > > installed. maybe I am wrong ? > > > > Debian has a package called pdmenu which is a text based menu > > system. It uses the same system for generating it's menus. (And no, it > > won't use $xterm -c or something like it.) > > I did not know this. In this case /etc/ makes sense. > > > This could be done with an extension to the KDE/Gnome stuff. I would > > prefer the debian menu system but thats only because I know it and I > > don't know the Gnome/Kde solutions. > > I have no problem to extend our susewm to the format as described. But the > primary documented solution for our users will be the kde/gnome files, > because it seems easier for me. Maybe this changes when a X11 configure > tool for this file exists. > > Is there any official document about this format ? I assume you are talking about Debian's menu package. this is the source package for it http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/source/admin/menu_2.1.5-3.tar.gz to get an idea of how it developed, this is the changelog file http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=menu shaya
