On Sat, Mar 05 2011, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 06:52:39PM -0800, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> > I was a fan of fvwm for years and I even have configured my xfce with >> > fvwm keycodes to have the same handling. However, if you ask me the >> > typical fvwm user (if something like this exists at all) is most >> > probably ignoring the menu and has rather configured his environment >> > to fire up applications via key codes or fires up an xterm and types >> > the command for an application. So while I do not really want to >> >> I would be surprised if that were indeed the case. If you look >> at the exemplar configuration file providedat fvwm.org, there is >> extensive use of menus -- and for non debian folk, yes, they tend to >> manually hard code application paths in menus; for Debian folks >> upstream even ships the default system.fvwm2rc with: >> Test (f /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook) + "Debian Menu" Popup /Debian >> Test (f /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook) + "Re-read System Menu" Read >> "/etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook" >> Test (f /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook) + "Update My Debian Menu" PipeRead >> 'update-menus && echo "Read $./menudefs.hook"' > > I do not question that these files *exist*. I simply question that they > are *used* in real life.
Fair enough. Would you, then, be satisfied by my answer that they are used? I am a current real life user of fvwm, and I am on the mailing lists for the fvwm project with other real life users and developers; and my expeirnces, and the chatter on the list, do not lead me to believe that menus are unused. Do you have concrete data to add here, apart from speculation? I would be interested in such data (as the once and perhaps future maintainer of fvwm in Debian). manoj -- If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes. Kirk, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9 Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@acm.org> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 4096R/C5779A1C E37E 5EC5 2A01 DA25 AD20 05B6 CF48 9438 C577 9A1C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwr16qty....@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com