Re: Re: fmenu

> > Or, maybe a better idea - use "gpe=yes" or a more generic form of
> > it to say "hey, I'd work on a PDA and not be a pain"? That to me
> > sounds good. It would both fit in the current /usr/lib/menu scheme
> > *and* allow for the seperation of PDA/non- PDA packages.
>
> Having fmenu key off of a particular tag in /usr/lib/menu as you
> mention here is surely the right thing to do. It should really solve
> almost all of your concerns as expressed above.
Sounds like a plan then! Suggestions for a name? gpe= is rather
specific IMHO but is the best bet so far.

> The fact that some packages like rxvt bury their menu entries very
> deep can easily be fixed. If it makes sense to revamp the menu policy
> in general for Familiar, (it has been pretty much adhoc so far), feel
> free to propose something to the Familiar mailing list.
Hmmmm...

> > Of course, there'd be an extra performance hit involved for
> parsing
> > the extra non-PDA ones but it probably wouldn't be noticable.
>
> No hit at all. Remember that at update-menus time, the
> /etc/menu-methods/fmenu template can filter out the entries that
fmenu
> doesn't care about. So, when fmenu actually runs, it will never see
> them. But, yes, this never would have been significant anyway.
Except when a CF card is inserted and everyone gets SIGHUPped. Also, I
was thinking of having fmenu read that format directly - no point in
inventing yet-another-menu-format.

> > What would have to be changed? update-menus would presumably
> have to
> > be re-run with a list of menu directories? It would be even
> better
> > that way as gtk-menu etc. would also benefit from extra programs.
>
> Yes, we would need a master list somewhere of directories into which
> packages could be installed. This list would be useful for several
> things:
>
> configuring destination paths for ipkg
> setting up /etc/ld.so.conf
> setting PATH properly
> generating menu entries
Ok, now we just need to convince someone to do all of that ;-)

> > Ditto. Note that I'm not trying to argue the point, more make
> sure
> > that we get it right the first time :)
>
> Sounds good to me. I think we're getting closer. :)
Definately.

> What do you think?
I think the gpe= thing is the solution to the menu problem. When a CF
card is inserted/removed update-menus should be run. update-menus also
has to be altered to take menus from multiple locations.

Now we just need someone to fix update-menus etc.. ;-)

> -Carl
mibus

 
Received on Fri Jan 04 2002 - 17:18:36 EST