Menus

Mark Trinidad writes:
> Is there a standard way that we are suppose to use to add a menu item? I
> have built an ipkg but need to insert a few items in the menu. I want to
> create an ipkg that will set everything up easily so our clients won't have
> to do much. I can probably create a program to edit the menu directly but
> I don't want to deviate from any standards. I am open to any
> suggestions.

Familiar has adopted the Debian menu system. Please see the following
documentation for what you need to do:

        http://handhelds.org/~nelson/menu/

Basically each package wanting a menu entry provides a file in
/usr/lib/menu/<package name> and also runs update-menus in the
postinst script. See the above URL for more details.

There has not yet been discussion within Familiar regarding the
Preferred Menu Structure. Feel free to propose some changes if you
think that Debian's preferred structure should perhaps be adapted for
handheld computers.

-Carl
Received on Wed Jun 06 2001 - 13:59:29 EDT