On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 21:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > I'm not sure that this is that-uncommon (given the target user-base of > > IceWM - very-low-end-machines - such as my 10 y/o laptop...) - again, > > generating the menus is a CPU and I/O intensive task. > > We have timed this? I have timed it. On machines ranging from PII/266/256MB to 16-core-Xeon/256GB RAM... ... Needless to say, the Xeon fared much better :) > > > In theory, I can install this icewm-xdgmenu by default, have it run > > @post, and let the users regenerate the menus manually - but then I > > would most likely get a lot of "why-isn't-program-X-in-my-menu" bug > > reports. > > Every properly packaged program (MUST in Fedora packaging guidelines) > would have a .desktop file and the program would show up as defined by > xdg spec. This is what we should support out of the box regardless of > the desktop environment. If the programs don't show up on the menu > automatically, wouldn't that indicate a packaging bug? OK. Let me start from the beginning. Icewm's support for desktop files is problematic. It's far slower then normal (manual) menus and you have a lot of missing icons/applications/etc. In essence, icewm works best with text-based menus - mostly because it was designed around it. In-order to get full menus, with user-selectable icon themes, without sacrificing performance, I used Konstantin Korikov xdg-to-icewm menu generator. (Credit where credit is due) You should understand that unlike GNOME/KDE/XFCE Icewm is essentially a text-file driven WM. Menus, toolbars, WM options, startup scripts are all text based. IMHO, having an opt-in automated menu generation system is -big- plus. Never the less, maybe I should do some documentation and drop a README file in %docs. > > > It would have been nice if I had an apt-like "suggest" feature built > > into yum/rpm/etc. > > Suggest is probably going to rpm.org upstream soon and has been patched > by various distros for a while now. However it can be a pain for > automated installations (do you install soft deps or not?), QA (test > with and without the optional dependencies) and should be used very > carefully. I know. ... But it will give me the option, at least in interactive modes, to offer xdgmenu support. > > Rahul > - Gilboa -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
