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[Jonathan Walther]

Daniel, I've known about this bug for a long time.  Please mail Bill
Allombert.  There was a bug on this issue already opened a while ago,
Bill Allombert offered to write a "correct" menu generation file, then
went silent.  After trying some things and poking around, I reassigned
the bug to his "menu" package.

There is no obvious problem in my menus file, and there is no
documentation whatsoever (besides source code) for the special unique
menu generation language that they wrote in C++.

Perhaps if you post a message to the bug, and also send a message to
Bill privately, he may find time to help out or steer us in the right
way.

   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=231826

By the way, the  version 2.3.5 of ratmenu fixes a redrawing bug that
appeared in dreary mode.  How have you enjoyed the other features of
ratmenu?

Jonathan

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:44:51PM -0400, Shawn Betts wrote:
> 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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