Tests Performed

The tests were performed by adding a file root.menu in /etc/menu reading

?package(local.test):command="/usr/local/bin/test" needs="X11" \
                     section="Apps/Test" title="Test/slash"
?package(local.test):command="/usr/local/bin/test" needs="X11" \
                     section="Apps/Test" title="Test dnl bug"
?package(local.test):command="eval `echo /usr/local/bin/test`" needs="X11" \
                     section="Apps/Test" title="Test backquote"

and a file user.menu in ~/.menu/user.menu reading

?package(local.test):command="/usr/local/bin/test" needs="X11" \
                     section="Apps/Test" title="U Test/slash"
?package(local.test):command="/usr/local/bin/test" needs="X11" \
                     section="Apps/Test" title="U dnl bug"
?package(local.test):command="eval `echo /usr/local/bin/test`" needs="X11" \
                     section="Apps/Test" title="U Test backquote"

The file /usr/local/bin/test is a symlink to /usr/bin/X11/xterm. Afterward update-menus has been run as root and as the current user. Then each menu managers are tested in turn. Ideally a menu Apps/Test should be created with six entry. Each entries are tested and should launch an X terminal. They are :

• Test/slash: Check if a "/" in a menu entry is allowed. Some menu managers using directory hierarchy as menus may break.
• Test dnl bug : Check if "dnl" is treated correctly. Some menu managers preprocessing their config files with m4 may produce undefined behavior.
• Test backquote : Check if backquote (`) are allowed in command. Some menu managers may not spawn a shell correctly to handle this. Also menu managers preprocessing their config files with m4 may produce undefined behavior.
• U Test/slash, U dnl bug, U Test backquote are similar but are generate from user  /.menu directory. Some menu managers does not generate these user menus out of the box.

In the results, window managers that are not menu managers are flagged N/A. a question mark "?" denotes that I have not been able to do the test. Anything else other than yes or OK indicate a bug.