[proaudio] Thoughts about menu entries and usability

[Thomas Kuther <gimpel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm currently looking at the mess in my default "Sound & Video" FDO menu
(E17 and XFCE here) - proaudio stuff chaotically mixed with video and
audio players, ripper, encoding stuuf..and the idea comes up to create a
nice menu, e.g.

	menu root
	--> Sound & Video
		--> Pro Audio
			--> Sequencer
				- Aldrin
				- LMMS
				- MusE
			--> Sythesizers
				- ZynAddSubFX
				- OmSynth
			--> Recording
				- Ardour
				- ReZound
	etc etc.

I know KDE and GNOME users can edit their menu as they like, also E17
and lots of others, but e.g. XFCE 4.4 doesn't seem to provide that
advanced menu editing..

So I could do this on my own... or for all in a maintainable way,
which means adding a package, e.g. "x11-misc/proaudio-menu" something
like that which adds required default menuicons and generates the
submenus (there are eclass funcs for "domenu" etc, so that wouldn't be
hard), and an eclass, let's say proaudio.eclass that takes care this
package is installed and provides some functions.

But what do users and devs think about this?
 - that sucks, mess around on your own box
 - good idea
 - i don't care
:)

Any comments on this are welcome.

Regards,
Tom

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