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Autor: Irrwahn
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To: dng
Betreff: Re: [DNG] JWM: was Some questions re the devuan release
On Fri, 20 May 2016 15:40:59 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2016 09:26:38 +0200
> Irrwahn <irrwahn@???> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 May 2016 08:04:07 +1000, Ozi Traveller wrote:
>>> +1
>>>
>>> As a jwm user I would really like to see it brought up to date.
>>
>> Please excuse me for nitpicking here once again:
>>
>> The De[bi|vu]an jwm package *is* up to date. The only thing
>> that'd need to be changed (dropped in this case) is a patch
>> that makes some trivial cosmetic changes to the example.jwmrc
>> file. And that'd only serve to relieve the end-user of the
>> burden of applying some miniscule edits to his jwmrc
>> configuration file.
>
> What about their ridiculous menu, where you need to click through
> Debian and then Applications just to get to what you expect the first
> time you click the start button?


Part of that seems related to above mentioned patch. The
rest is just as I already wrote upthread. Re-quoted here
for your convenience:

| 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".

[...]
| If one wants
| A Slicker Menu ™, one should fork and modify the menu
| package instead!



HTH, Regards
Urban