On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 07:31:46PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > I have added a /etc/menu/menu.frequent with my frequently used commands: > > ?package(local.mystuff):needs="x11" section="0Frequent" sort="001" > title="Name 1" command="Command 1" > ... > ?package(local.mystuff):needs="x11" section="0Frequent" sort="001" > title="Name n" command="Command n" > > Because I want to sort the commands not by their title, but by the way I > want to sort them, I also use this patch to menu.h: > > -sort=tolower(title()) > +sort=ifelse($sort,$sort,"ZZZ") ":" tolower(title()) > > which works fine for the commands. But if the section name is > "Frequent", it will sort after "Apps" and "Databases" in the sections. > I *Had* been using "_Frequent" to make the section sort at the top, but > 2.1.15 broke that: it now sorts "_Frequent" after "Apps", as part of its > effort to sort French things correctly as described in the changelog. > > Is there a way to explicitly specify the sorting of sections like you > can for commands? IIRC you cannot. Am I stuck using the silly section > name "0Frequent" to make it sort to the top? At least _Frequent kind of > stood out visually.
In fact you can, you just need to add a menu entry for the section: ?package(local.section): needs="text" title="Frequent" section="/" sort="001" This is not really documented and I don't know exactly how that works yet, but I will investigate and document it properly. Cheers, Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
