automatically create menu entries

[Jose M Rodriguez]

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 20:19, Roman Kennke wrote:
> Am Mi, den 06.10.2004 schrieb Adam Weinberger um 14:00:
> > >> (10.06.2004 @ 0710 PST): Roman Kennke said, in 1.5K: <<
> > >
> > > Hi FreeBSD-Gnome-list,
> > >
> > > I've been using FreeBSD+Gnome for a while now and want to say
> > > first, that I'm very pleased with this.
> > >
> > > One thing that I am missing is menu entries for common
> > > applications like Mozilla, Emacs, OpenOffice and so on. I would
> > > like to have this configured automatically. I have some ideas how
> > > to accomplish this:
> > >
> > > 1. each application (port) is responsible for creating desktop
> > > entries in the /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/applications (?) directory.
> > > ok, not a very good solution. This could be supported by the
> > > ports system in some way.
> > >
> > > 2. someone (maybe me) starts to create (or maybe there exists) a
> > > database of applications with their common binary locations and
> > > .desktop entries for them. Then it should be easy to scan a
> > > computer for these apps and include the desktop entries in
> > > /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/applications directory
> > >
> > > 3. another cool system is Debians menu system. something similar
> > > could be implemented in the ports system. This again gives the
> > > ports developers some responsibility.
> > >
> > > Such a system would not only be good for FreeBSD/Gnome but also
> > > for other Freedesktop.org compliant window managers and/or OSes.
> > >
> > > Is there interest in such a system? Does something like this
> > > already exist in FreeBSD? Which approach would you like?
> > >
> > >> end of "automatically create menu entries" from Roman Kennke <<
> >
> > I've been toying with the concept of a Makefile macro that will
> > generate desktop entries for ports that do not install them. I'll
> > get moving on that. It's the least portable option, however.
> >
> > I think that if you're up to writing a program, you should either
> > make (a) a full-fledged GNOME menu editor, or (b) use your second
> > suggestion and make an app that also recognizes when a program has
> > a desktop entry but has been renamed and/or moved to a different
> > category. I disagree with the way that fluxbox-generate-menu
> > overwrites the menu that you already have.
>
> Oh well, actually there is such a program: x11-wm/wmconfig does the
> job
>
> quite fine:
> >wmconfig --output=gnome2
>
> restart Gnome and you have a new menu named Wmconfig which holds lots
> of entries for all kind of apps. I must check this app more closely.
>
> /Roman
>

Please, check this before.
http://freedesktop.org/Standards/menu-spec/menu-spec-0.8.html

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  josemi