On 4/9/07, Sergej Pupykin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I finished my research. > > gnome and kde are xdg compatible. So they picks up .desktop files > automaticaly. > > TODO: > > - make common xdg configuration in /etc/xdg/menu and > /usr/share/desktop-directories. (gnome/kde have own) > - write parser for xdg XML (perl) to simplify output format > - write few WM methods which take parsed output from xdg parser and make > menu items. > > Output format from xdg parser: > > path/to/application1/in/menu > icon-name1.png > command to run app1 > long application1 description > path/to/application2/in/menu > icon-name2.png > command to run app2 > long application2 description > > 4 lines per menu item. > > Suggestions? >
Before we go reinventing the wheel... what have other distros done? http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/MenuMigrationToXDG That's the mandriva roadmap for their conversion, they pretty much took the suse tool and some debian stuff. How about we look at those and see if they're any good first? And if you google some more, there's some other implementations that might be worth looking at, menumaker, denu, http://code.google.com/p/fluxbox-xdg-menu/, James -- iphitus // Arch Developer // kernel26beyond // iphitus.loudas.com _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
