On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Dominique Michel < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I begun to make a xdg application menu with full support for the > additional FreeDesktop categories for fvwm. It will be usable with any > desktop/wm that support the xdg menu. > > https://github.com/domichel/fvwm-xdg-menu > As somebody with extensive experience with the XDG menu spec, please, don't work on either this spec or apps that use it any longer. None of the existing implementations are 100% compliant because the spec is extremely hard to implement correctly, and it specifies weird things that nobody wants or are unintuitive. You're much better off creating your own system. Before I continue, I want to be sure I am not making duplicated > efforts. I googled, but didn't find any xdg applications menu with full > support for the additional categories. Are you aware of such an > existing menu? > > Also, I am looking for translated category files (the files > into /usr/share/desktop-directories/). I was able to find such files > for the main categories, but google return almost nothing for the > additional categories files. Are you aware of the existence of such > translated files? > > Last, it can be hacks for desktops like gnome, kde, and so on, as well > than for some distributions. For now, I simply let xdg do its job, > don't have much time and have other priorities as well. What do you > think would be best to do with these hacks when my menu will be done > with all the additional categories? > > Best, > Dominique > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > -- Jasper
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