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2011/5/11 Pascal Terjan <[email protected]>: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 06:10, Franklin Weng <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> Right now I'm customizing my own menu (without menu editor). I'm >> implementing our own menu structure, so I followed XDG menu specs to >> create our own menu. >> >> However, I found that the menu layout attributes, like "show_empty", >> "inline", ... etc., seemed to be ignored. >> >> AFAIK, the XDG menu spec implementation should be done by distribution >> vendors. If yes, would anyone please tell me if Mageia (or even >> Mandriva) fully follows the XDG menu spec? Or, what should I do to >> make the show_empty, inline work? > > On which environment did you test? GNOME? KDE? KDE. > The specification is followed by the desktop environment as far as I > know, but the distro defines some rules (using the menu spec) > > inline works and is used in /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu: > > <Name>Applications</Name> > <Layout> > <Menuname inline="false">Internet</Menuname> > <Menuname inline="false">Office</Menuname> > <Menuname inline="false">Graphics</Menuname> > <Menuname inline="false">SoundVideo</Menuname> > <Menuname inline="false">Tools</Menuname> > <Menuname inline="false">Development</Menuname> > <Menuname inline="false">Games</Menuname> > <Menuname inline="false">Education</Menuname> > <Menuname inline="false">Sciences</Menuname> > <Menuname inline="false">Documentation</Menuname> > <Merge type="menus"/> > <Merge type="files"/> > <Separator/> > <Filename>rpmdrake.desktop</Filename> > </Layout> > <DefaultLayout inline="true" inline_limit="1"> > <Merge type="files"/> > <Menuname>More</Menuname> > <Merge type="menus"/> > </DefaultLayout> My rules are like this: <Menu> <Name>Applications</Name> <Directory>ezgo.directory</Directory> <KDELegacyDirs/> <DefaultAppDirs/> <DefaultDirectoryDirs/> <DefaultLayout inline="true" inline_limit="1"> <Merge type="menus"/> <Merge type="files"/> <Separator/> <Menuname>More</Menuname> </DefaultLayout> <Layout> <Menuname inline="false" show_empty="true">Office</Menuname> <Menuname inline="false" show_empty="true">Graphics</Menuname> <Menuname inline="false" show_empty="true">SoundVideo</Menuname> <Menuname inline="false" show_empty="true">Internet</Menuname> <Menuname inline="false" show_empty="true">Games</Menuname> <Menuname inline="false" show_empty="true">Education</Menuname> <Menuname inline="false" show_empty="true">Accessibility</Menuname> <Separator/> <Menuname inline="false" show_empty="true">System</Menuname> <Menuname inline="false" show_empty="true">Development</Menuname> <Menuname inline="false" show_empty="true">Settingsmenu</Menuname> <Separator/> </Layout> <Menu> <Name>Internet</Name> <Directory>ezgo-internet.directory</Directory> <Layout> <Menuname inline="true" inline_limit="0">Internet-Browser</Menuname> <Separator/> <Menuname inline="true" inline_limit="0">Internet-IM</Menuname> <Separator/> <Merge type="menus"/> <Merge type="files"/> </Layout> <Menu> <Name>Internet-Browser</Menuname> <Include> <And> <Category>Network</Category> <Category>WebBrowser</Category> <Not><Category>X-KDE-More</Category></Not> </And> </Include> </Menu> <Menu> <Name>Internet-IM</Menuname> <Include> <And> <Category>Network</Category> <Category>InstantMessaging</Category> <Not><Category>X-KDE-More</Category></Not> </And> </Include> </Menu> </Menu> [deleted] </Menu> The result is: the show_empty attribute didn't work. The inline attribute inside the layout of Internet menu didn't work. I thought that I've followed the XDG men specs. Did I write anything wrong? Thanks for your help! Franklin
