Re: SEUL: Re: SEUL distribution?

[George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>]

On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Erik Walthinsen (Omega) wrote:

> > -How good is the DEbian user interface?  You don't even get
> > auto-upgradable menus.  And you get mosly raw X apps so the user is
> > supposed to twinkle with resources.  :-(
> And RedHat is much better?  Yes, they have put some work into developing a
> few window-manager setups, and some menu automation, but have they tried
> to build a set of tools and applications to flesh out the interface?  Not
> that I've seen.

Yes, debian DOES have auto-upgradeable menus. :)

This is from the description of the menus package:

menu - provides update-menus functions for some applications

The intent of this package is to streamline the menu's (like the fvwm2
ones) in debian. For this purpose, it provides a "update-menus" programme,
that will check for new menu files (as provided by other packages in
/usr/lib/menu), and run the install programmes in /etc/menu-methods of the
various window managers (or console menu's, like pdmenu) on the new
menufiles. Also in this package are a couple menu entries, as an example. 
The system admin can easily override these, as can any package maintainer.


George Bonser 
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