After several years of running Debain I have gotten very used to new programs automatically adding themselves to my menu when I install them. It is a nice extra that saves me some time and presents a more 'complete package' and helps avoid menu entries for apps that are not installed. So I was interested in seeing if there was any interest in putting together some type of way to have an automatically generated applications menu in gentoo. A file could be put in something (say /usr/share/menu/) and a program could build up sometype of menu after portage finishes its job (but perhaps only if a particular USE flag relating to this exact purpose is set) and with a standard location the entries would be easy enough to change to give people the exact menu they want, or just accept the developer's defaults. If you care Debian's argument for this type of thing (as well as way too much info) can be found at http://linux-cd.com.ar/manuales/debian-menu/ Just a thought on how to add bells and whistles. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge abiword 2.forget to make symlink from Abiword-2.x to abiword 3.forget to put it in menu 4.try running abiword 5.emerge abiword again because I forgot it was already there 6.click on openoffice.org 7.get confused when it says 'not installed' 8.realize as the old version of abiword is removed that I was a fool Expected Results: I do not want to need to customize the menu every time I change windowmanagers or everytime a new user is added to the system since the default menus for almost every windowmanager contain some programs that are not present and leave out some that are.
Have you seen denu? (http://denu.sourceforge.net/)
I was not at all aware of it, and am currently emerging for it to see what all it can do
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25756 ***
