--- On Mon, 3/14/11, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/14/2011 06:22 AM, Piscium > wrote: > > I am currently using a full desktop environment > (Gnome) but am > > considering using instead a window manager. There are > dozens of them > > around, so I have been exploring and comparing. > > > > I noticed that for many of the window managers that I > install in > > Debian (examples: fluxbox, openbox, awesome) there is > an application > > menu tree that can be easily accessed with the mouse > from the desktop, > > and this tree has - as far as I can tell - the same > applications in > > the Gnome menu, though usually organized differently. > > > > If I install the same window managers in Fedora I do > not get the menu > > tree. I like the way things work in Debian because > this means less > > work is needed in creating menus for some rarely used > applications > > (for programs that I use often I don't mind spending > some time to > > create some sort of launcher). > > Debian's menu system dates back to the time when > there was no > freedesktop.org xdg menu specification and my understanding > is that, the > Debian menu system is considered > deprecated. Window managers in Fedora > usually have utilities to generate a menu based on > the xdg spec. For > example, fluxbox-xdg-menu, part of the fluxbox package The Debian menu utility is still available in the current repositories for Debian 6 Stable, which was just released a few weeks ago. No mention of deprecation that I noticed. B -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
