On Monday 17 August 2009 10:34:34 PCMan wrote: > Sorry, I have another idea: > [Desktop Action] groups should also allow the X-KDE-Submenu key, so > creating submenu for submenus is possible. Although there is no real > use case now, this might be useful in the future once someone needs > it. > > Also, there might be a new key named Dynamic. > The key contains a command line which can generate menu content > dynamically. After calling the command, its stdout should be inserted to > current desktop entry file. > So we can support dynamic menu items generated with scripts. > This partially solves my preceding question, how to generate menu > according to different context for files of the same mime-type. > > Example of its usage: > 1.you can use a shell script to examine the content of the folder, and > then generate the menu according to its content. > 2.this can be used to develop integration with version control systems. > 3.and more....
If we were to support something like this I think it would be best if we required the .desktop file to be marked as executable as well, to avoid opening a silly security hole that GNOME and KDE both recently fixed. Regards, - Michael Pyne
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