Re: Some menu ideas

Ethan Fischer (allanon@u.washington.edu)
Wed, 13 May 1998 21:04:17 -0700 (PDT) 


On Wed, 14 May 1998, Chris Arguin wrote:

> I had it all working, except that certain menus (Quit, Modules, etc...)
> are special cases. The Afterstep code actually looks for a start/Quit, so
> it doesn't find start/99_Quit... The menu displays in the correct place,
> but is non-functional. I could fix that too, but eventually this
> turns into a kludge upon a kludge.

Actually, there is better (though still not perfect) control over menus in 
1.4.5.55.  I changed the start menu melt so that it no longer has the 
special Quit and Desktop menus, and made menus mostly customizable by 
passing through files which have a keyword as their first word.

Say you have a start/ that looks like this (filenames are followed by 
a colon and their contents):
start/
 0_nop:Nop ""
 1_restart:Restart "Restart ASWM" afterstep
 2_quit:Quit "Exit X-Windows"
 3_nop:Nop ""
 4_reboot:Exec "Reboot System" exec shutdown -t0 -r now
 Applications/
 Desktop/
 
You would end up with a menu like this:
PopUp "Start"
 Title "start"
 PopUp "Applications"
 PopUp "Desktop"
 Nop ""
 Restart "Restart ASWM" afterstep
 Quit "Exit X-Windows"
 Nop ""
 Exec "Reboot System" exec shutdown -t0 -r now
 EndPopUp

The items are still sorted alphabetically by filename, but their name 
in the menu isn't set by the filename...  Note that there is still no way 
to sort the popup names "out of order".

> Oh well... If there is no great demand, I won't bother.

Well, there's already a way to do much of what you want, but I for one 
would like to see the script idea (or something similar).  Then we could 
do away with the special menus left (Looks, Feels, and Pictures).  Check 
out 1.4.5.55N and tell me what you think! :)

----
Ethan Fischer
allanon@u.washington.edu
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~allanon


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