Re: Question about menus (usermenu, appmenu)

Josip Deanovic <[email protected]> escribió:

> 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.

I updated the patch.

Thanks for your comments.

kix.


Rodolfo García Peñas (kix)
http://www.kix.es/


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