Re: Question about menus (usermenu, appmenu)

Josip DeanovicOn Monday 2015-08-24 21:53:25  wrote:
> > BTW, Wouldn't it be a better to use the path
> > ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/UserMenus than
> > ~/GNUstep/Defaults/UserMenus
> 
> I have googled for UserMenus and gnustep and found that number of
> people found that this feature works if they use the path
> ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/UserMenus
> 
> So, unless there is a good reason to put that directory under
> the ~/GNUstep/Defaults maybe it would be a good idea to just
> fix the documentation and leave the path as it was.
> 
> That also gives the answer to the original question in the thread:
> yes, we can expect that there are people who learned to use that
> feature. :-)

Looking trough the NEWS file...

The feature first appeared in 0.53.0

And later, in version 0.60.0 it says:

-----BEGIN-----
User Menu
---------

The user menu is now a compile time option disabled by default.
Supply --enable-usermenu to configure to enable it.
-----END-----


and...


-----BEGIN-----
Application User Menu Path Changes
----------------------------------

Default configuration for user specific menus installed in
/usr/local/share/WindowMaker/UserMenus or $(datadir)/WindowMaker/UserMenus
and ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/UserMenus.
-----END-----


So actually regarding the path everything was fine in the code, we just
didn't find it in the documentation right away.

I would suggest an addition of a line under the initial announcement
with the note that path has changed to
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/UserMenus in a later versions so that
people don't get confused.


-- 
Josip Deanovic


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