Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:10:41 +0200 From: Roman Kennke <roman@ontographics.com> To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: automatically create menu entries Message-ID: <1097061041.690.15.camel@moonlight>
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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? Best regards, Roman
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