Re: program binary names

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Sat, 2001-10-13 at 16:03, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu> writes: 
> > http://usability.gnome.org/proposals/menus.html
> > 
> > Nils has done a terrific job on this and its pretty stable at this point
> > as you can probably guess by the revision history ;-)
> 
> I have to agree, I'm really excited about having this in 2.0. 
>  
> > If you are looking at modifying your own application, I also suggest you
> > at least scan:
> > 
> > http://usability.gnome.org/hig/desktop-integration.html
> 
> This is awesome too, I don't believe I've never seen it before. You
> guys aren't sending out enough announcements. ;-)

Its not ready to be announced, well at least not with us standing behind
it. Much of the "mini" HIG (for GNOME2) is written, and we are in the
process of reviewing it and editing it internally. We'll have a much
larger public review in the next few weeks. I posted the link to the
desktop integration section because it is an issue that has been coming
up a lot right now and is being dealt with programmatically at the
moment (so 'twas better to get an unfinished version out early than a
crack-free version after the changes are already set in stone ;-)

> > That would be a lovely change. Ximian has done this, and I think the
> > results have been largely positive.
> 
> The trick is to do it without losing all third-party menu items from
> the panel menu. That's why we haven't done it in Red Hat.
> 
> George's new all-singing all-dancing menu proposal should fix that.

yes indeed

-Seth