On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:55:47PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > I forward this message. Initially Matt asked me privatelly about > supporting parsing of the vfolders XML Categories description. >
Yes, fvwm-menu-desktop should be rewritten to support "vfolders" and the "new" spec (http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-entry-spec/). I've not the time to do this. Sorry. Regards, Olivier > X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 > To: Mikhael Goikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: fvwm-menu-desktop > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:27:18 +0100 > From: Matt Davey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > What is "vfolders XML Category description"? > > On the current redhat distribution (and I've no idea which others, but > I guess anything keeping with the everchanging gnome2 landscape), > the .desktop files include an extra piece of meta-information. For example, > my gnu-emacs.desktop contains the line: > > Categories=TextEditor;Development;X-Red-Hat-Base;Application; > > Then, .menu files a menu structure is defined, with each submenu defined > by a set of categories which can be ANDed and NOTted together, in the style > of Apache XML configuration. > > > > > My rh9 distribution has all the .desktop files in > > > /usr/share/applications.. > > . > > > > So you should use: > > > > fvwm-menu-desktop --dir /usr/share/applications > > /usr/share/applications has no subdirectories, so I end up with a flat menu > list that is about twice the height of my desktop, and doesn't split into > multiple columns. > > All the best, > > Matt > -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
