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| author | Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> | 2011-11-16 12:33:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Igor Pashev <pashev.igor@gmail.com> | 2013-03-05 16:39:28 +0000 |
| commit | dd7279795c97aa356727d366a2149c9bc838b496 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/menu.html/ch4.html b/doc/menu.html/ch4.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d793f51 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/menu.html/ch4.html @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> + +<html> + +<head> + +<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<title>Debian Menu System - What packages with applications should do</title> + +<link href="index.html" rel="start"> +<link href="ch3.html" rel="prev"> +<link href="ch5.html" rel="next"> +<link href="index.html#contents" rel="contents"> +<link href="index.html#copyright" rel="copyright"> +<link href="ch1.html" rel="chapter" title="1 Introduction"> +<link href="ch2.html" rel="chapter" title="2 Menu from the viewpoint of a user"> +<link href="ch3.html" rel="chapter" title="3 The menu file"> +<link href="ch4.html" rel="chapter" title="4 What packages with applications should do"> +<link href="ch5.html" rel="chapter" title="5 What packages with menu managers should do"> +<link href="ch6.html" rel="chapter" title="6 How a user can override the menus"> +<link href="ch7.html" rel="chapter" title="7 The internals of the menu package"> +<link href="ch8.html" rel="chapter" title="8 Variables and functions in the install-menu scripts"> +<link href="ch2.html#s2.1" rel="section" title="2.1 How/when do the window manager startup files get created?"> +<link href="ch2.html#s2.2" rel="section" title="2.2 Tuning of the generated window manager startup files"> +<link href="ch2.html#s2.3" rel="section" title="2.3 Optimization of menu tree: hints"> +<link href="ch3.html#s3.1" rel="section" title="3.1 Location"> +<link href="ch3.html#s3.2" rel="section" title="3.2 Syntax"> +<link href="ch3.html#s3.3" rel="section" title="3.3 The title field"> +<link href="ch3.html#s3.4" rel="section" title="3.4 The needs field"> +<link href="ch3.html#s3.5" rel="section" title="3.5 The section field"> +<link href="ch3.html#s3.6" rel="section" title="3.6 The command field"> +<link href="ch3.html#s3.7" rel="section" title="3.7 The icon field"> +<link href="ch3.html#s3.8" rel="section" title="3.8 The hints field"> +<link href="ch3.html#s3.9" rel="section" title="3.9 Entries for menu sections."> +<link href="ch3.html#s3.10" rel="section" title="3.10 Fvwm's task and title bars"> +<link href="ch4.html#s4.1" rel="section" title="4.1 Providing a menu file"> +<link href="ch4.html#s4.2" rel="section" title="4.2 Adding a hook for dpkg in your packages"> +<link href="ch6.html#s6.1" rel="section" title="6.1 Configuring the menus"> +<link href="ch6.html#s6.2" rel="section" title="6.2 Specifying that a menu entry should not be displayed"> +<link href="ch6.html#s6.3" rel="section" title="6.3 Including other files"> +<link href="ch7.html#s7.1" rel="section" title="7.1 The update-menus program"> +<link href="ch7.html#s7.2" rel="section" title="7.2 The install-menu program"> +<link href="ch7.html#s7.3" rel="section" title="7.3 The install-menu config script definitions"> +<link href="ch7.html#s7.4" rel="section" title="7.4 Hints, tree optimization"> +<link href="ch8.html#s8.1" rel="section" title="8.1 String constants"> +<link href="ch8.html#s8.2" rel="section" title="8.2 Variables"> +<link href="ch8.html#s8.3" rel="section" title="8.3 Functions"> +<link href="ch8.html#s8.2.1" rel="subsection" title="8.2.1 Special variables"> +<link href="ch8.html#s8.2.2" rel="subsection" title="8.2.2 Preferred variables"> +<link href="ch8.html#s8.2.3" rel="subsection" title="8.2.3 Suggested variables"> + +</head> + +<body> + +<p><a name="ch4"></a></p> +<hr> + +<p> +[ <a href="ch3.html">previous</a> ] +[ <a href="index.html#contents">Contents</a> ] +[ <a href="ch1.html">1</a> ] +[ <a href="ch2.html">2</a> ] +[ <a href="ch3.html">3</a> ] +[ 4 ] +[ <a href="ch5.html">5</a> ] +[ <a href="ch6.html">6</a> ] +[ <a href="ch7.html">7</a> ] +[ <a href="ch8.html">8</a> ] +[ <a href="ch5.html">next</a> ] +</p> + +<hr> + +<h1> +Debian Menu System +<br>Chapter 4 - What packages with applications should do +</h1> + +<hr> + +<h2><a name="s4.1"></a>4.1 Providing a menu file</h2> + +<p> +A package should provide a menu file +<code>/usr/share/menu/<package-name></code> that contains information +about each program it likes to make available in the menus. +</p> + +<hr> + +<h2><a name="s4.2"></a>4.2 Adding a hook for dpkg in your packages</h2> + +<p> +The <samp>postinst</samp> script and the <code>postrm</code> script of the +package should include the line +</p> + +<pre> + if test -x /usr/bin/update-menus; then update-menus; fi +</pre> + +<p> +If you are using <code>debhelper</code>, the program +<code>dh_installmenu</code> can do it for you. +</p> + +<hr> + +<p> +[ <a href="ch3.html">previous</a> ] +[ <a href="index.html#contents">Contents</a> ] +[ <a href="ch1.html">1</a> ] +[ <a href="ch2.html">2</a> ] +[ <a href="ch3.html">3</a> ] +[ 4 ] +[ <a href="ch5.html">5</a> ] +[ <a href="ch6.html">6</a> ] +[ <a href="ch7.html">7</a> ] +[ <a href="ch8.html">8</a> ] +[ <a href="ch5.html">next</a> ] +</p> + +<hr> + +<p> +Debian Menu System +</p> + +<address> +version 1.4, 10 November 2011<br> +<br> +Joost Witteveen <code><a href="mailto:joostje@debian.org">joostje@debian.org</a></code><br> +Joey Hess <code><a href="mailto:joeyh@debian.org">joeyh@debian.org</a></code><br> +Christian Schwarz <code><a href="mailto:schwarz@debian.org">schwarz@debian.org</a></code><br> +Bill Allombert <code><a href="mailto:ballombe@debian.org">ballombe@debian.org</a></code><br> +<br> +</address> +<hr> + +</body> + +</html> + |