Hi all,
I build the Mutagenix LiveCD Suite(http://mutagenix.org) which provides
fvwm as an alternate to GNOME for the desktop CD. I wanted to be able to
provide an fvwm menu which would give access to all the GNOME programs
already installed on the CD.
I came up with a small script which gets 90% there. It does provide a
menu system of all the gnome apps, but is not well organized. I'm
providing the script here in the hopes that someone else will be
interested enough to help out.
I'm not a programmer by trade, so please go easy on the flaming for any
mis-steps. :) Also, I'm cutting and pasting, so doublecheck for any extra
new-lines that get thrown in there.
To use: execute and pipe output to a temp file. Insert temp file into
.fvwm2rc or your themed fvwm however appropriate. I use a single .fvwm2r,
so just opened it up, removed the old "Special" menu portion and replaced
it with the output from this program.
thanks,
Dan
### begin script
#!/bin/sh
for file in /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
do
if [ -n "`echo $file | grep applications`" ];then Menu="Special"; fi
grep Category $file | grep -v Not | sed -e "s/^ //g" \
| awk '{print $1}' | sed "s/</>/g" | awk -F">" '{print $3}' \
| sort | uniq > /tmp/gnomemenu_categories
for line in `cat /tmp/gnomemenu_categories`
do
### Create Secondary Menus
echo "DestroyMenu \"$line\" "
echo "AddToMenu \"$line\" "
for i in /usr/share/applications/*
do
category=`grep "^Categories" $i | cut -f2 -d= | awk -F";"
'{print $2, $3}' | grep $line`
if [ -n "$category" ];then
name=`grep "^Name=" $i | cut -f2 -d=`
exec=`grep "^Exec" $i | cut -f2 -d=`
icon=`grep "^Icon" $i | cut -f2 -d=`
#echo "$category || $name || $exec || $icon" | sort |uniq
echo "+ \"$name\" exec $exec "
fi
done
done
### Create Top Level menus
echo "DestroyMenu \"$Menu\" "
echo "AddToMenu \"$Menu\" "
for line in `cat /tmp/gnomemenu_categories`
do
echo "+ \"$line\" Popup \"$line\" "
done
done
#### End script
