On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:39:23 +0200 "Carlos R. Mafra" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > What about Freedesktop menu support in wmaker? > > I am happy with 'genmenu' script. And I remember having seen some > scripts converting KDE menus to wmaker, so is there a need to > bother about this? > > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ - Desktop Menu > > Specification. > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ - > > Desktop Entry Specification. > > > > It is quite simple. > > Then it should be simple to make a patch too. > Do you have an idea about how to do it? :-) > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. I did some work awhile ago on this. I rewrote the old kde menu generator in bash and added another utility. I never settled on what might be the best design ideas. What I mean is that it's easy enough to create a generator which will show the whole *.desktop database, but I figure that most users would want to be able to *limit* the menu entries. So I wrote the tools so that they would create a separate tree of *.desktop files in the users HOME directory. Then, the menu-item-generator works from this database. The trouble with this is that it adds bloat to the HOME dir and doesn't allow for updating menu items which are later installed to the main database in /usr/share/applications. I'm attaching the files for what it is worth and would appreciate any feedback or fixes which address the issues above. Note that I purposely eliminated the need for awk/perl as used by the former tools. It does make the tools slower, but brings no extra depends other than bash. wm-update-deskto-menus is the tool which creates or duplicates the database tree with *.desktop files. It should be run first, and can also be setup to run each time the user logs in (by placing the command in the 'autostart' script) wm-gen-desktop-menu is the tool which creates the menu for you on-the-fly. To use it: You can add a line this to your WindowMaker WMRootMenu file: ("Desktop Applications", OPEN_MENU, "|| /usr/bin/wm-gen-desktop-menu ~/GNUstep/DesktopMenus"), Or you can use the WPrefs application to add a 'Generated Submenu' with this command: /usr/bin/wm-gen-desktop-menu ~/GNUstep/DesktopMenus --note assuming that wm-gen-desktop-menu is installed to /usr/bin I've also attached another tool I use to generate menus on-the-fly as another example of what can be done. wm-gen-appdir-menu creates menu items for a directory full of ROX-Filer AppDirs. AppDirs are self-conatined applications or wrappers which fit everything into a special 'executable' directory. With ROX-Filer they are treated so transparently just by clicking on them. But, they can be used under other environments by simply executing the AppRun script found in each AppDir. wm-gen-appdir-menu creates a menu item for each AppDir which executes the AppRun script. While we're on the subject, I'll also attach another menu-generator(resolution.sh) written by Piter Punk. resolution.sh can be used by creating a menu entry for a ''Program Generated Submenu' using the resolution.sh command. The menu item then looks like this: ("Set Resolution", OPEN_MENU, "|| /usr/bin/resolution.sh"), What the tool does is use xrandr to read the possible screen resolutions and create a submenu which lets you simply click on the desired resolution to change your screen resolution. It requires awk to work. Hope these help... Gilbert Ashley
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