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Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] programmable menus for rio
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Quoth Jacob Moody <moody@mail.posixcafe.org>:
> Something I've been playing with is a way of exposing part of the rio
> menu to the programs running within it. This is a bit of a simple
> approach, but I would like to gauge interest that people have in
> something along these lines before continuing.
> 
> This adds a /dev/menu file that can be written to
> to add new entries to the button3menu. The file
> can be read to get the text string of an added
> menu entry when hit by the user.
> 
> Thanks,
> moody
> 

It seems like an interesting trick -- but, the
programs that might use it would already likely
be graphical, no?