Gilboa Davara wrote:
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.
I don't have a problem with it sticking with its existing
menu/options/startup etc.
I do think it should respect the conventions that apply in Fedora (and
its relatives), and my cursory reading of RPM's triggers suggests that
the triggers mechanism provides a way of keeping properly synchronised.
Hopefully, the work to do it is light and educational.
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Cheers
John
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