Menu Policy - please read if you maintain a package with a .desktop file in it!

[Matias Feliciano]

Sorry for my poor english.

Le ven 14/05/2004 à 08:22, Barry K. Nathan a écrit :
> (snip)
> Or perhaps there could be a "Show More Programs"/"Show Fewer Programs"
> toggle in the menu,

What i want seem "simple" to me.
I want a flag per Program :
Extra_flag : true|false
The default is set by RedHat/Fedora.

No "real" menu editing.

If Extra_flag is set to "true", the program is placed in an extra menu.

The extra menu can be like the one RH8.0 provided.

Extra menu can also be an entry at the top of the Gnome menu.

Exemple for system-config-bind and gucharmap (in French here).
system-config-bind : Extra_flag = false
gucharmap : Extra_flag = false
- gnome menu
	- accessoires
		- Calculatrice
		- Table de caractères (gucharmap)
        - paramètres système
                - paramètres de serveur
                	- service de nom de domaine (system-config-bind)
                - écran de connexion

Now suppose "Extra_flag = true" for system-config-bind and gucharmap :
- gnome menu
	- accessoires
		- Calculatrice
        - paramètres système
                - écran de connexion
	- extra
		- accessoires
			- Table de caractères
        	- paramètres système
                        - paramètres de serveur
                        	- service de nom de domaine

Or with the layout of RH8.0
- gnome menu
	- accessoires
		- Calculatrice
		- extra
        		- Table de caractères
        - paramètres système
                - paramètres de serveur
                	- extra
                        	- service de nom de domaine
                - écran de connection

The extra_flag can be set by a contextual menu :
- "move to extra menu"
- "move to main menu"


> which would explode the menu with everything that's
> installed or trim it back down to the Red Hat defaults. This would be
> sort of like the little menu expansion tab thingies in Windows ME/XP,
> except it would not attempt to adapt itself to the user, and perhaps
> would be less annoying as a result.

> (snip)
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