Re: Quick way to match programs to packages

[Nils Philippsen <nils wombat dialup fht-esslingen de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, James Green wrote:

> Well, I do have a better suggestion. I was thinking about the way the
> Windows (MS) manages to pack quite a bit into the zillions of widgets it
> uses, especially the enhancements with IE4/5. The Start menu is one.
> 
> Anyway, I clicked our beloved foot menu, and right-clicked on an entry.
> Low and behold five entries appeared in a menu. Now this could be my cvs
> version folks, so try it yourself, but it looks promising. Anyway, why not
> put some more stuff in there?
> 
> "Show full file path"
> "Show package containing this program"
> "Show program version"
> "Show help for this program"
> "Send bug-report for this program"
> etc
> 
> How about it, doesn't it sound cool?

It really does sound cool, but I would put this info into the About box,
too. Concerning the package problem, I'd have a --with-package-name=...
option for configure, which defaults to "gnome-core 1.0.9 tarball" or
similar. This could be set to "Red Hat gnome-core-1.0.9-3 RPM" or "Debian
gnome-core-1.0.9-2" or whatever else with this switch (and then be shown
in the About box easily and with an extension to the .desktop file format
in the panel too). We needn't determine the package of a program
dynamically, you know.

Nils
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