Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

["jack wallen, jr" <jlwallen iglou com>]

take a look at the way AfterStep does it's menus.

the global menus are in /usr/share/afterstep/start and all user menus
(that overwrite - or add to) the globals are in 

~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/start

at least this is the way it was done in the past.  of course, being the
only user on my system i just deal with globals.


On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Matt Herbert wrote:

> Matthias Warkus wrote:
> > 
> > +++ Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 02:54:53PM -0400 +++
> > jack wallen, jr e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> > 
> > > UI:
> > >
> > >       Ability for normal user to edit menu entries
> > 
> > Impossible. The best thing we could do were to copy the entire
> > system menu over to the home directory and have it edited there. But
> > then upgrades to the system menu's wouldn't reach you any more.
> > 
> 
> Why is this impossible? This doesn't seem like it should be that difficult.
> First the code would read in the menu's from the system area.  Then it
> would check the user's home directory, and add any new entries into the
> menu tree that were found.  Then display the menu.  Obviously the user's
> settings would have precedence over the system menu's.
> 
> This would allow Joe Average User to open up the menu editor, and change
> something about the gnorpm entry. The menu editor would then save a whole
> new gnorpm entry in the users home directory (say .gnome/apps/System/gnorpm.desktop),
> which would override the settings of the system entry.
> 
> It may also make sense to add a new "Special=delete" entry to the menu
> item, so If a user wanted to completely remove gnorpm from their menu,
> they would be able to delete it via the menu editor, which would create
> a gnorpm.desktop file in the user's home directory, with the special setting,
> and thus not show the gnorpm menu entry at all.
> 
> Granted, I don't know C, but I do know perl, and I can picture exactly how
> the code would work.  Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems like
> it would be a relatively easy change.
> 
> This addition would be very nice.  It would allow a user to change their
> menu entries to suit their own personal needs, -and- still allow them
> to see changes to the system menus.  All without having to su to root.
> 
> -Matt
> 
> PS, I'm not picking on gnorpm, I was just using it as an example :)
> 
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