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jgmenu has a new release with a major feature bump - it's own C-coded
menu generator that relegates python3+pmenu and lx+menu-cache to
options. The new "apps" modules will also reference xfce4 garcon menus.
Since version 2.1 a third build option will generate an xfce4-panel menu
plugin.
For more details, see
https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu/blob/master/docs/relnotes/4.0.txt
From the porters's handbook
"You won't care about some options. It makes no sense to disable some
stuff if it always works, and if the dependencies are quite small."
My questions revolve around "small" and how to to provide for community
testing. I suspect cwm users would be very interested in a jgmenu-apps
flavor and if it tests well in cwm and other lightweight WM's drop the
python3, menu-cache, libfm dependencies. pmenu always works, is slower
and python3 is not "quite small" although python2 will loose support
later this year and python3 tends to get installed by other ports.
menu-cache, libfm and gnome/mate-menus are smaller and have always
worked and may be helpful to porters who run lightweight desktops but
need to test ports with freedesktop *.desktop entries.
I'm leaning towards 2 flavors initially:
jgmenu-apps
and
jgmenu-lx.
Comments? Suggestions?
--
J. Scott Heppler
