Re: gnome menus in fvwm

[Dan Espen]

Dan Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Dan Espen wrote:
> 
> > Dan Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Take a look at fvwm-menu-directory.
> 
> Well, it seems that would work, but would just give a huge menu of all the 
> executables in a directory with no heierarchy.  The script I sent copies 
> pretty closely the GNOME menu layout (ie subdirectories for office, 
> multimedia, etc)
> 
> Unless I'm missing something...?

Oops, I should have written:

fvwm-menu-desktop

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Dan Espen   E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome menus in fvwm

[Dan Barber]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Dan Espen wrote:


Dan Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

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.


Take a look at fvwm-menu-directory.


Well, it seems that would work, but would just give a huge menu of all the 
executables in a directory with no heierarchy.  The script I sent copies 
pretty closely the GNOME menu layout (ie subdirectories for office, 
multimedia, etc)


Unless I'm missing something...?

Dan



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Re: gnome menus in fvwm

[Dan Espen]

Dan Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.

Take a look at fvwm-menu-directory.

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Dan Espen   E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gnome menus in fvwm

[Dan Barber]

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