On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:49:21PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > I really hate (well that's a bit strong;) the standard menu layout in > debian. Under gnome for instance one has the standard gnome menu plus an > additional debian menu which has everything. A lot of the folders are > nearly empty, which doesn't help searching. Putting on hints helps a > bit, but this has the drawback of getting very weird folders or > inconsistently placed apps. > Now I was wondering if somebody had already thought about using tags to > organize the menu tree. And do you, all being much more accustomed with > tags then I am, think it's feasible?
<rant> Heck, I do agree with you. I even tried mentioning the idea on the freedesktop mailing list, but noone cared about it: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-February/003352.html Appearently, they have this wonderful menu reorganization and merging algorithm which doesn't seem to be working with the Debian menu. </rant> The problem with using the tags as they are now, is that not necessarily the tags of a package can be precisely applied to the binaries inside it. However, this wouldn't mean they aren't useful. If you can get a list of all executable files launched by the menu entries, you can "easily" get a list of their tags: #!/bin/sh for FILE in "$@" do PKG=$(dlocate $FILE | grep "$FILE\$" | cut -f1 -d:) TAGS=$(debtags tag ls $PKG | perl -e 'while (<>) { chop; push @a, $_ } print join(", ", @a)') echo "$FILE: $TAGS" done You can take this script, give it as arguments the list of executables you find in the mens and save the output into a file. This file you can then use it to experiment with tagcoll: tagcoll hiearchy yourfile I don't know how useful it would be, but maybe you can try playing with this and seeing if it leads somewhere. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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