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Author: Irrwahn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] JWM: was Some questions re the devuan release
On Thu, 19 May 2016 11:32:47 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2016 10:01:27 +0200
> Irrwahn <irrwahn@???> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 15 May 2016 09:39:29 +1000, Ozi Traveller wrote:
>>> I agree, and I think JWM in out of date, as the version of the
>>> source from the developer's site is much later.
>>
>> The version of JWM in Debian Sid (and thus in Devuan
>> Ceres) is 2.3.5, which is the current release.
>> Cf. http://joewing.net/projects/jwm/
>
> The question, though, is whether the Debian Sid JWM package has all
> those annoying Debianisms, like having to menu through Debian then
> applications (or something like that) to get to what most of us would
> expect to see upon pressing the start button.


Looking at the source package I cannot see a single
invasive patch WRT to the original source. I think you
are referring to the Debian menu package, which is
not part of JWM, but merely a "Recommends" in the Debian
jwm package. Without that menu package, the JWM menu
is almost empty: It has only entries for "Terminal",
"Lock", "Restart" and "Exit".

In consequence, forking the Debian jwm package would
make a difference of exactly zilch. If one wants
A Slicker Menu ™, one should fork and modify the menu
package instead!

HTH, HAND
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