On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 11:44:50PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a HOWTO for adding a menu item to Icewm
> (preferably written in plain-speak)?
Don't stop with Icewm! After all, what if you want to use Enlightenment
tomorrow? The best way is to use Debian's menu system. There are some
docs in /usr/doc/menu. Here's an example I put in /etc/menu:
file = staroffice
?package(local.staroffice):\
needs="x11"\
section="Apps/Local/StarOffice"\
title="StarOffice 5.1"\
command="/usr/local/Office51/bin/soffice"\
icon="/usr/local/Office51/s_soffice.xpm"
?package(local.staroffice):\
needs="x11"\
section="Apps/Local/StarOffice"\
title="Setup"\
command="/usr/local/Office51/bin/setup"\
icon="/usr/local/Office51/s_soffice.xpm"
The local.package in ?package() tells the menu system it's installed,
even if it's not in the dpkg database. Here, I have both the path to the
setup program and the executable for staroffice5.1a. Simply run
update-menus after putting a new file in /etc/menu.
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