Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:00:31 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: Roman Kennke <roman@ontographics.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: automatically create menu entries Message-ID: <20041006120031.GN22274@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <1097061041.690.15.camel@moonlight> References: <1097061041.690.15.camel@moonlight>
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>> (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. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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