Re: automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/14/2011 06:46 PM, Clive Hills wrote: > Why is this here ? this is a *fedora* list? Why not? Just because it's not fedora-specific doesn't mean we can't give the OP a pointer in the right direction. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o

Re: automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-14 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 03/14/2011 09:46 PM, Clive Hills wrote: Uhuh Why is this here ? this is a *fedora* list? Clive users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Re: automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-14 Thread Clive Hills
Uhuh Why is this here ? this is a *fedora* list? Clive > > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users ma

Re: automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/14/2011 10:12 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > The Debian menu utility is still available in the current repositories for > Debian 6 Stable, which was just released a few weeks ago. No mention of > deprecation that I noticed. Not officially but there are a few references here and there http

Re: automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 3/14/11, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/14/2011 06:22 AM, Piscium > wrote: > > I am currently using a full desktop environment > (Gnome) but am > > considering using instead a window manager. There are > dozens of them > > around, so I have been exploring and comparing. > > > > I notic

Re: automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-14 Thread Piscium
On 14 March 2011 11:13, Piscium wrote: > Thanks for the information (also to Tim). Yes, I managed to easily > create a menu in Fluxbox with  fluxbox-xdg-menu. Open box seems to > have a similar script though I have not tested it. I could not yet > find something similar for awesome. Looks like t

Re: automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-14 Thread Piscium
On 14 March 2011 07:24, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Debian's  menu system dates back to the time when there was no > freedesktop.org xdg menu specification and my understanding is that, the > Debian menu system is considered deprecated.   Window managers in Fedora > usually  have utilities to generat

Re: automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/14/2011 06:22 AM, Piscium wrote: > I am currently using a full desktop environment (Gnome) but am > considering using instead a window manager. There are dozens of them > around, so I have been exploring and comparing. > > I noticed that for many of the window managers that I install in > Deb

Re: automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-13 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 00:52 +, Piscium wrote: > I tried to understand how the window managers in Debian get the > application menus. It seems that it all happens as result of a Debian > package called "menu", which keeps the menus automagically up-to-date > for the window managers that bother t

automatic menus for window managers

2011-03-13 Thread Piscium
I am currently using a full desktop environment (Gnome) but am considering using instead a window manager. There are dozens of them around, so I have been exploring and comparing. I noticed that for many of the window managers that I install in Debian (examples: fluxbox, openbox, awesome) there is