[haiku-development] Re: Submenu in Applications menu
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:24:25 +0200 CEST
"Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
> > Plus, if you have several versions of the
> > application around, you couldn't differentiate
> > them from the query results.
> Are multiple versions of an application going to be
> allowed with the package manager? If so you have a
> similar problem to deal with.
>
> Deskbar could do just as good a job at providing
> differentiation in the presentation of available
> applications as could a package manager. And it
> could do it for all entries, regardless if they're
> known to to the package manager or not.
>
> What's more, category attributes would be available
> to other applications, menus and launchers and would
> be more useful to them than a collection of symlinks
> in ~/config/be.
There is nothing that speaks against category attributes. And the
package manager could maintain them by default, and also build the
default menu entries based on that.
But I think it's easier for the user to customize the menu as he wants
it to be when using symlinks, as well (think sub-categories).
Bye,
Axel.
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