Re: Menu

Jim Gettys writes:
> Carl,
>
> There is a new standard for this (not written down) shared by the
> KDE and Gnome folks.
>
> I recommend we follow this convention unless we have good reason....
> - Jim

Jim,

I was planning on using Debian's menu so that we could reduce the
munging necessary for converting existing .debs. But, more and more
these days I'm realizing that I may be creating a monster rather than
just a small tweak of Debian. *sigh*

I'm fine with any reasonable system. I just checked Debian's menu and
the two binaries it provides don't meet this criterion, (300KB and
600KB)[1]. :( The actual format of the menu seems reasonable
though. Nothing that couldn't be turned into a blackbox menu with 1KB
or less of sh+sed magic.

I'd be glad to look into the KDE/Gnome system. Any recommendation on
where I could find more details? or should I just try installing
one of these and poke around?

-Carl

[1] This system includes code to balance the branching factor of
subtrees as much as possible. Cute. But certainly something we can
live without given our space constraints.

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