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From: Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: ratmenu updated with nifty features; in Debian now!
To: address@hidden
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:58:19 +0200

Jonathan Walther <address@hidden> writes:

> ratmenu has folded in some improvements from the "ratmen" fork, and made
> a few of its own.
>
> * redrawing of standard (dreary) menu is now optimized (way faster)
>
> * Themes! you can set fonts, colors, and default menu style using
>   Xresources.  A sample resource file comes in the tarball.
>
> * Menu taller than screen issues now totally cleared up; selected item
>   never goes out of sight.
>
> * New option lets you set item number to be the first selected on
>   startup.
>
> * Manpage is updated.
>
> To download the source, go here:
>
>     http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/ratmenu/ratmenu_2.3.1.tar.gz
>
> Test it, stomp on it, let me know how it works for you.

Nice!  I'm having problems with about half the Debian submenus though.

For instance, my `/etc/X11/ratmenu/debian.apps.editors.menu' looks
like this:

    # Automatically generated file. Do not edit (see 
/usr/share/doc/menu/html/index.html)

     "Emacs 21 (text)" "x-terminal-emulator -T \"Emacs 21 (text)\" -e 
/usr/bin/emacs21 -nw"ratmenu -style dreary -label "/Debian/Apps/Editors" -back 
/etc/X11/ratmenu/debian.apps.menu "Emacs 21 (X11)" "/usr/bin/emacs21" 
"fontforge" "/usr/bin/fontforge" "GNU TeXmacs" "/usr/bin/texmacs" "Nano" 
"x-terminal-emulator -T \"Nano\" -e /bin/nano" "qemacs" "/usr/bin/qemacs" "Vim" 
"x-terminal-emulator -T \"Vim\" -e /usr/bin/vim" "wily" "/usr/X11R6/bin/wily" 
"Xedit" "xedit"

Notice how the first item, `Emacs 21 (text)', is brutally misplaced.
Another example is the `debian.apps.math.menu':

    # Automatically generated file. Do not edit (see 
/usr/share/doc/menu/html/index.html)

     "bc" "x-terminal-emulator -T \"bc\" -e /usr/bin/bc"ratmenu -style dreary 
-label "/Debian/Apps/Math" -back /etc/X11/ratmenu/debian.apps.menu "Xcalc" 
"xcalc"

This misplacement seems to result in more-or-less undefined behavior
when entering one of these erroneously constructed menus.
However, many other submenus look and work perfectly fine.

I'm using ratmenu 2.3.5 and menu 2.1.23, both fresh out of sid.

Let me know if you'd rather I file this in the DBTS.


-- 
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>



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