[haiku-development] RFC: Packages and the Deskbar menu
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 22:28:08 +0200
Greetings,
I'm currently in the process of extending the package file format to
provide additional meta information, like what settings files the
package provides/creates, what Unix users/groups it requires, etc. One
of the things I considered adding are information regarding the Deskbar
menu items the package would like to add. When installing a package the
package manager would then ask the user whether they should actually be
created.
However, talking to Stippi, he convinced that a simpler, automated
approach makes a lot more sense. The basic idea is that the Deskbar menu
merges an auto-generated part -- that is all the entries provided by
installed packages -- with whatever the user has added manually in
~/config/settings/deskbar/menu/. The assumption is that most users will
be happy with installed applications appearing automatically in their
Deskbar menu -- particularly when reasonable categories are provided.
For puristic users a Deskbar setting to disable the auto-generated part
could be added. It would revert the behavior to the current one.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
CU, Ingo
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