Menus in Hoary/Gnome2.9

thephotoman rantman_2000 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 22 16:08:01 CST 2005


And what do I need to run to get that to open?

Shimon wrote:
> ubuntu can use xfce 4.2 menu editor its in GTK+ it uses the same
> freedesktops standard and has tons of features
> <img src="http://de.lunar-linux.org/xfce4/screenshots/snap_VII.jpg">
> it in the background in this picture
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> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:06:59 +0100, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
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>>On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:20:53AM -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote:
>>
>>>It was my belief that Ubuntu simply used Gnome's code to make a kick
>>>ass distribution, not that they were bound by every stupid thing Gnome
>>>did.  Witness the menus in Warty which are not standard 2.8 menus.
>>
>>I think the patch for the menus in Warty is minor, i.e. they are a patch
>>to change the items in the menu. What you are proposing is a patch that
>>replaces all the code that handles the menus. The difference is
>>substantial.
>>
>>I don't think the Ubuntu maintainers are too interested in maintaining
>>patches of the size you are proposing (porting the old menu-system to
>>the newer version of GNOME). At the same time they don't want to lag too
>>far behind the GNOME release schedule. There's a conflict here, and I
>>for one believe that Ubuntu makes the right trade-off.
>>
>>/M
>>
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