On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 08:21:03PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > With all the new anvances in Linux Desktop tecnologies, it seems like > > the current menu system needs some redesign to keep up and integrate > > with the other existing systems. > Please explain this phrase. Ecspecially the "other existing systems". > Debian menu-system has many disadvantages, though I've not heared of > any other system at all.
We have at least three parallel menu systems around: the Debian Menu, the Gnome Foot Menu and the KDE menu. > > open Desktop Menu Specification found here: > > http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu/draft/menu-spec/menu-spec.html > Seems to be both for the "desktop" and the "menus". I do not see what > they have in common. Menus are things that are also used in the desktop. Or didn't I understand your question? > It seems to miss some things, most important in my eyes a possibility to > switch window managers. (I doubt it is usable for anything than KDE or > Gnome) We now acheive the possibility to switch window managers by generating, from a single metadata source, the menu data for the various window managers or menu-using applications we package. We could keep doing the same, but using the freedesktop format for our metadata source instead of the one we're using now. Bye, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
