Re: Where software lives

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:26:21AM -0400, Liam Quin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:37:07PM -0400, Erik Pukinskis wrote:
> > When a new user installs Linux, the distro installs hundreds of application,
> > a large portion of which are GUI applications.  But only a handful of those
> > show up in the foot menu.
> 
> Mandrake (which I am using) tends to patch programs as necessary to make
> them appear in the menus, and also has a "menudrake" program that builds
> shared menus for KDE, Gnome, and other desktops.
> 
> They shouldn't have to do patches, though.

This is where the vfolder menus come in.  The menu is not a GNOME menu, not a
KDE menu, not a Distribution menu.  It will be a "Menu".  It will be shared
by all apps.  Hopefully KDE will also implement the vfolders and then all
that distros need to do is add .desktop files to their packages.

George

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