On 2012-08-14, Dan Espen wrote: > Oleksandr Gavenko <gaven...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Debian Wheezy release (next stable) come with: >> >> $ fvwm-config -v >> 2.5.30 > > Way too old. See below. > >> 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 > > Get a current version of fvwm from CVS. > fvwm-menu-desktop has been completely re-written and will > produce useful menus without any arguments at all. > Thank for answer. You info valuable to me!
Some notes on Fvwm on Debian. In Debian release 4.0 Fvwm come on CD-1, now it with Debian 6.0 shifter to DVD-2 based on package popularity. There are exist request to update Fvwm for newer release: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623194 Please upgrade fvwm to version 2.6.3 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684395 newer upstream releases without responses from package maintainers. Seems that maintainers have no time for packaging new release. I will try to contact with them and will offer my help. >> 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? > > Yes, it's based on an old version of gtk (version 1) and won't work with > any modern distro. There didn't seem to be anyone interested in > updating FvwmGtk to something more current. > OK. >> After a far bit more googling I found script: >> >> http://pastebin.com/ktGaAcgw >> xdg-menu.py > > Yes, exactly what we used as a basis for the current fvwm-menu-desktop. > That's great! >> I hope this info save time for other people. > > Too late. OK, I understand... For those who have interest in solution that I shown I want add tips that I forget to write. These lines add icons to Gnome/KDE menus items (for most of them, not to all): # Debian paths. ImagePath +:/usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/apps ImagePath +:/usr/share/icons/locolor/32x32/apps ImagePath +:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps ImagePath +:/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/ # This paths contain large icons for some apps, they make menus look ugly... # ImagePath +:/usr/share/icons # ImagePath +:/usr/share/pixmaps -- Best regards!
