Re: start menu order: by time, alphabet, colour or blood type?
Ethan Fischer (allanon@u.washington.edu)
Sun, 28 Jun 98 02:07:22 +0200
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, chris burgess wrote:
> is there really a pattern to how my start menu orders itself?
>
> mine works like:
>
> MENU ORDER ls -1u ls -1 ls -1c
> Apps/ 0_nop 0_nop Machines
> Config/ Apps Apps Screen
> Forms/ Config Config Xterm
> Modules/ Forms Forms Apps
> Quit/ Machines Machines Quit
> Machines/ Modules Modules Forms
> Screen/ Quit Quit Modules
> 0_nop Screen Screen Config
> Xterm Xterm Xterm 0_nop
>
> the only documentation on start menu order has claimed it uses time,
> but i suspect this isn't true ... ;) is there some other magic setting i
> could use? am i misreading timestamps?
It does sort by date - each filename is hashed by the number of people
you know, then sorted by their birth dates. ;)
But seriously, by default AS sorts the menu by filename, then by
file type (directory vs. non-directory). You can change this behavior
in configure.h at compile time.
> two other quick questions:
> - start menu fonts sometimes don't appear in bold, sometimes don't
> highlight in automagically created menus (pictures, look.* etc) - is
> this a feature?
Nope, it's a bug. This bug is fixed in 1.5pre3.
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