Bug#389932: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-10-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Bill Allombert wrote: W: gnumed-client-debug: menu-command-not-in-package /usr/share/menu/gnumed-client-debug:5 x-terminal-emulator Shouldn't a Depends: xterm | x-terminal-emulator be enough here? I admit that it might be hard to define a lintian rule to verify the c

Bug#389932: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-10-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 01:33:03PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > The solution that was suggested by you and Philipp Benner seems to be not > aware to lintian > > W: gnumed-client-debug: menu-command-not-in-package > /usr/share/menu/gnumed-client-debug:5 x-terminal-emulator > > Shouldn't a > >

Bug#389932: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-10-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Bill Allombert wrote: I suggest a simpler route (untested): command="x-terminal-emulator -e /bin/sh -c \"gnumed;echo press any key to continue;read foo\"" Note that it does not really solve the dependency on xterm: it merely replaces it on a depdendency on any terminal-em

Bug#389932: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:31:57AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > Andreas Tille wrote: > > 3. File bugs against all packages that provide > > x-terminal-emulator but do not show the -hold feature > > (would this be reasonable) It would not, to few x-terminal-emulator provide -hold. > >

Bug#389932: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Jon Dowland wrote: Then perhaps that's a suitably trivial program to bundle with menu, and perhaps extend the menu spec so that you can specify "This is an X program but I want console output displayed and preserved on termination"? This sounds quite reasonable. Thanks f

Bug#389932: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-29 Thread Philipp Benner
> Thanks for the hint to the -hold feature but it seems to work only > for real xterm. So I have probably several possibilities: > >1. Make gnumed-client dependant from xterm (which seems be > useless for most of the cases. >2. Make a separate package gnumed-client debug which >

Bug#389932: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
Andreas Tille wrote: 3. File bugs against all packages that provide x-terminal-emulator but do not show the -hold feature (would this be reasonable) If I am correct that -hold does something like your program echo press any key to continue read foo Then p

Bug#389932: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Bill Allombert wrote: needs="x11" command="x-terminal-emulator -e foo" should do the trick. Maybe Andreas is looking for xterm -hold ? Thanks for the hint to the -hold feature but it seems to work only for real xterm. So I have probably several possibilities: 1. Make

Bug#389932: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:37:58PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > * Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060928 16:09]: > > > is there any relieable way to force opening a terminal from a menu > > entry and call a programm from this terminal to make sure that > > console output will be v

Bug#389932: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, is there any relieable way to force opening a terminal from a menu entry and call a programm from this terminal to make sure that console output will be visible? I never succeeded to find this out. :-( Kind regards Andreas. On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Karsten Hilbert wrote: Package: g

Bug#389932: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-09-28 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060928 16:09]: > is there any relieable way to force opening a terminal from a menu > entry and call a programm from this terminal to make sure that > console output will be visible? > > I never succeeded to find this out. :-( Regarding Debians menu syst