Bento Loewenstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> i don't know for sure who mantains the content of the debian
> directory, with all the stuff needed to generate .deb packages. are
> the guys on debian's many lists or the nice people from this one ?
Hello,
Martin Dietze is providing unchanged builds from GIT, I am guilty for
most of the other later changes of debian/ in GIT. Both of us are on
this list. The packages on www.debian.org have not switched to
wmaker-crm, they seem to be almost unmaintained.
> i'm asking this because i've been working on a new menu-method script
> that debian uses to create menus for many diferent kinds of window
> managers.
> what my script does different than the current method on debian, is
> generate a proplist, instead of an old "menu.hook". right now, it does
> most of the things right, but it still need some testing to see if
> there's any bug left.
I am not familiar with menu-method stuff, but debian/README.Debian
tries to explain that changing the menu-method to PropList is not a
good idea. Has anything fundamentally changed since this was written?
Afaiu the problem is that while old style menus can be included, new
style menus cannot. This is a major point, since it makes it possible
to include the Debian menu in a custom one.
> if i send my menu-method to this list, and it's sound (i.e. i squash
> the few remaining bugs), will it be picked by debian when they pull
> wmaker-crm ? or should i send it to debian too ?
Unless your patch fixes a critical issue it probably will not
propagate to Debian, until the maintainer situation improves, which is
why I think it currently does not make any sense to put it on
bugs.debian.org.
On a sidenote your script does not generate a valid menu for me:
tes...@argenau:~$ WPrefs
WPrefs: warning: syntax error in file /home/testit/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu,
line 5: was expecting a string, data, array or dictionary. If it's a string,
try enclosing it with ".
WPrefs: warning: syntax error in file /home/testit/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu,
line 5: could not get PropList array element
[...]
Quoting /home/testit/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu:
--------------------------------------
(Debian,
("Exit", ("Exit session", ("Applications",
("Accessibility",
("Xmag", ),
("Data Management",
("OpenOffice.org Base", ),
("Editors",
--------------------------------------
The script also seems to lose commandline arguments,
This part
"Editors" MENU
"GVIM" SHEXEC /usr/bin/vim.gtk -g -f
"Nano" SHEXEC x-terminal-emulator -T "Nano" -e sh -c "/bin/nano"
"Xedit" SHEXEC xedit
"Editors" END
changes to
("Editors",
("GVIM", ("Nano", ("Xedit", )
cu andreas
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