Menus in Hoary/Gnome2.9

Shimon shimen at gmail.com
Sun Jan 23 00:26:38 CST 2005


i'll say it again:

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


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:08:01 -0600, thephotoman <rantman_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:06:59 +0100, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> >
> >>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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