Thomas Adam <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 04:25:43PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: >> Thomas Adam <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 06:58:59AM +1000, John H. Moe wrote: >> >> j...@aus10224 ~ $ fvwm-menu-desktop >> >> DestroyMenu "gnome-sys" >> >> AddToMenu "gnome-sys" "Gnome System Menu" Title >> >> j...@aus10224 ~ $ fvwm-menu-desktop --desktop kde-sys >> >> DestroyMenu "kde-sys" >> >> AddToMenu "kde-sys" "Kde System Menu" Title >> >> j...@aus10224 ~ $ >> > >> > What version of FVWM is this on? I did a tiny amount of work a few years >> > ago now I think to "fix" the above, but thst was a few years ago. :) >> > >> >> My (un)educated guess is that the script is working, but it's not >> >> finding menu definitions either where it's expecting, or in the format >> >> it's expecting. >> > >> > I am hoping Dan Espen will reply since he likes XDG menus [1]. >> >> Yep, hi all. >> >> The Fvwm script is broken and it should be removed before we >> do a 2.6 release. The problem with the script is that the underlying >> file structure changed. > > Ah. Damn, this is a shame, but I completely agree. Have added it to > todo-2.6 so I don't forget. You and I are currently assigned to that (hope > you don't mind). Dan, if there's any technical information/futher thoughts > on this, drop an email to fvwm-workers@ please? :)
The whole thing is a 2300 line perl script. We could just take a copy, rename it, remove the non-fvwm stuff and include it in fvwm. One nice thing about it is that we could actually have our default startup menu be a working, fully functional, menu. Better would be to get the various distributions to include xdg_menu along with the other xdg tools I see (in Fedora). I don't know why the major distributions haven't picked it up.
