Debian Wheezy release (next stable) come with: $ fvwm-config -v 2.5.30
Debian have own menu system and I intensively use it. But time come and a few people worry about old technologies. So new package have .desktop files with high probability and have no menu files with zero probability. I try to transform .desktop files in Fvwm readable format by: $ fvwm-menu-desktop --desktop gnome-sys $ fvwm-menu-desktop --type gtk --desktop gnome-user as say fvwm-menu-desktop(1) and get near empty output: DestroyMenu "gnome-sys" AddToMenu "gnome-sys" "Gnome System Menu" Title I know that problem in distros must be resolved at its bug tracker. But this require long time delay... I try find another solution but general search only point to fvwm-menu-desktop (from mail list archive, fvwmforum and blog posts). I try point fvwm-menu-desktop to Debian hierarchy: $ fvwm-menu-desktop --dir /usr/share/applications --name gnome-menu --title "Gnome menu" DestroyMenu "gnome-menu" AddToMenu "gnome-menu" "Gnome menu" Title + "kde4" Popup "gnome-menu-kde4-4" + "Skype" Exec exec skype + "GnuCash" Exec exec gnucash + "Qucs" Exec exec qucs + "DjView4" Exec exec djview4 ... ..... 260 lines without Popup ... + "digiKam" Exec exec digikam -caption "digiKam" and get result that does not satisfy my - all menu items in one looooong list. I expect hierarchical organisation, like terminals, editors, games... I check: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ and present files: $ cat /usr/share/applications/supertuxkart.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=SuperTuxKart Version=1.0 Icon=supertuxkart GenericName=A kart racing game Exec=supertuxkart --log=file Terminal=false StartupNotify=false Type=Application TryExec=supertuxkart Categories=Game;ArcadeGame; So I decide that .desktop files provide enough info (look to 'Categories' field) to make hierarchical. Also I examine 'fvwm-menu-desktop' script: $ grep -i Categories <`which fvwm-menu-desktop` || error not found not found Also specs say about menu files: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ar01s04.html Menu files must be well-formed XML files and end in the extension ".menu". fvwm-menu-desktop have no any xml related code... Same problems reposter 3 years ago: http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm-workers@fvwm.org/msg01899.html Re: fvwm-menu-desktop, xdg-menus ================================================================ Another question about FvwmGtk which mentioned in fvwm-menu-desktop(1). It is currently doesn't ship in Debian. Does anyone know that a problem with FvwmGtk as it rejected by Debian? ================================================================ After a far bit more googling I found script: http://pastebin.com/ktGaAcgw xdg-menu.py which uses xdg Python library to convert .menu, .desktop and .directory to Fvwm menus. I simplify it (remove image conversion and so remove dependency on "import gtk") for Debian: import sys import os import xdg.Menu from xdg.DesktopEntry import * sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout) # For testing purpose. Uncomment to run this file without args... # sys.argv.append('debian-menu') if len(sys.argv) >= 2: sys_menu_name = sys.argv[1] else: print("You forget pass NAME which is /etc/xdg/NAME.menu") exit(1) # xdg_config_dirs hold possible paths. We use Debian one. sys_menu_file = "%s/menus/%s.menu" % ("/etc/xdg", sys_menu_name) sys_menu = xdg.Menu.parse(sys_menu_file) def parse_menu(menu, name): ''' Parse menu file. ''' print 'DestroyMenu recreate %s' % name for entry in menu.getEntries(): if isinstance(entry, xdg.Menu.Menu): icon = entry.getIcon() subname = name+"-"+str(entry) print u'AddToMenu "%s" "%s%%folder.png%%" Popup "%s"' % (name, entry.getName(), subname) parse_menu(entry, subname) elif isinstance(entry, xdg.Menu.MenuEntry): desktop = DesktopEntry(entry.DesktopEntry.getFileName()) icon = desktop.getIcon() ind = icon.rfind('.') if ind != -1: icon = icon[0:ind] cmd = desktop.getExec().rstrip('%FUfu') print u'AddToMenu "%s" "%s%%%s.png%%" Exec exec %s' % (name, desktop.getName(), os.path.basename(icon), cmd) else: pass parse_menu(sys_menu, "Menu-"+sys_menu_name) and integrate in my installation Makefile: .PHONY: install install: mkdir ~/.fvwm cp .fvwm/config ~/.fvwm for f in /etc/xdg/menus/*.menu; do \ f=$${f%.menu}; \ f=$${f#/etc/xdg/menus/}; \ python .fvwm/xdg2fvwm.py $$f >~/.fvwm/$$f.hook; \ echo "Read $$[HOME]/.fvwm/$$f.hook" >>~/.fvwm/config; \ echo "AddToMenu MenuMyRoot $$f Popup Menu-$$f" >>~/.fvwm/config; \ done To make all work I install: $ sudo apt-get install python-xdg to satisfy script dependency and: $ sudo apt-get install gnome-menus for Gnome /etc/xdh/menus/gnome-applications.menu file and: $ sudo apt-get install kdelibs5-data for KDE /etc/xdh/menus/kde4-applications.menu file. Full solution available in Mercurial VCS: https://sourceforge.net/u/gavenkoa/skel/ci/tip/tree/.fvwm/ https://sourceforge.net/u/gavenkoa/skel/ci/tip/tree/Makefile ================================================================ Also I discover these highly useful links: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-menu http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/MenuMigrationToXDG http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMenu http://wiki.debian.org/DesktopDefaultSettings http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries ================================================================ I hope this info save time for other people. Any comments are welcome! -- Best regards!
