On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 08:56:23AM +0200, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote: > ???????? 10/03/2014 05:52 ????, ??/?? Isaac Dunham ????????????: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 08:25:57AM +0200, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote: > >> ???????? 10/03/2014 12:28 ????, ??/?? ibid...@gmail.com ????????????: > >>> iceweasel.desktop:Categories=Network;WebBrowser; > >>> ida.desktop:Categories=Motif;Graphics;Viewer > >> You may choose (or the CDE developers may choose) to have predefined > >> categories > >> and look for them in the Category field. And whatever does not fall in > >> these predefined categories > >> will go to "Other" (of course we should not care for the Qt or GTK > >> category, etc). > >> > >> I think it is minimal for a modern system to have categories such as > >> > >> Network/Internet, Office, Graphics, Media, System, Development, Games, > >> Education, Accessories. > >> > >> Right now I see that CDE has 4 Categories: Desktop_Apps, Desktop_Tools, > >> System_Admin, and Information. > >> > > I note that the categories have somewhat of a natural map: > > System -> System_Admin > > > > Network|Office|Graphics|Games -> Desktop_Apps > > > > Accessories|Utilities -> Desktop_Tools > > I think it is wrong to do this. In the old days people hardly had a few > applications. Today we have so many available applications. > If you put everything in the standard folders we will have cluttered > directories and the user will be looking for their apps for time. > I think this would be annoying. Even in subdirectories it would be > annoying as it slows down the use of the application manager. > > I believe that the Application Manager should have a similar look with a > modern menu. This is the best from the usability point of view.
OK, thanks for the response.
I'll have a version that can do this shortly. A script I've used for testing
is attached.
(I've also made a couple smallish changes in desktop2dt, including %[uUfF].)
> > My goal is not to have a script out there but to provide a tool
> > that will be included with CDE; there's a similar tool for migrating
> > from VUE to CDE included in the tree.
> >
> > I get the impression that it would be possible to include applications
> > in subdirectories, which *might* be a better approach.
> > But I'm afraid I haven't looked at the documentation on how to add icons
> > for new categories...what's a good place to find documentation on that?
>
> Nice. I agree it should become a part of CDE. For seeing how to do it
> you can check the
> Advanced User and Administrator Guide or you may take a look in my
> desktop_approots.tgz
<snip>
>
> The Internet.dt file is given below.
Thanks; this is what I was looking for. I'd not found the relevant part
of the Advanced User and Administrator Guide.
> By the way in a previous message of mine I wrote that it is better to
> use %Arg_1%
> instead of %u. We need one more correction. To change this to "%Arg_1%"
> because nowadays people give names to files that contain spaces. And the
> quotes are needed.
> Drag and Drop still works with the quotes around %Arg_1%.
>
> Antonis.
>
>
> The Internet.dt file contains:
> #-------------------------------
> DATA_ATTRIBUTES InternetAppgroup
> {
> ACTIONS OpenInPlace,OpenNewView
> LABEL Internet
> ICON internet-icon
> DESCRIPTION Applications for Internet: Browsers, Mailers etc.
> }
>
> DATA_CRITERIA InternetAppgroupCriteria1
> {
> DATA_ATTRIBUTES_NAME InternetAppgroup
> LABEL Internet
> MODE d
> PATH_PATTERN */appmanager/*/Internet
> }
>
> ACTION Open
> {
> ARG_TYPE InternetAppgroup
> TYPE MAP
> MAP_ACTION OpenAppGroup
> }
>
> ACTION Print
> {
> ARG_TYPE InternetAppgroup
> TYPE MAP
> MAP_ACTION PrintAppGroup
> }
> #----------------------------------------------------------
Thank you much,
Isaac Dunham
findcat.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
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