On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:54:59PM +0530, Divya Subramanian wrote: > I want to create a GUI, in which, on clicking applications menu, it must > show the installed apps in a grid view. > > Can anyone help me ?
First of all, create the application in your favourite programming language. Personally, I would look at using some sort of flexible container as the main element of the GUI and populating it with cells according to the list of applications. Consult the manual of your widget toolkit for how to do that. Next, in order to learn what applications are installed, you're probably best following the XDG-Menu specification[1]. AFAIK, all the major desktops follow the XDG specifications to some extent so you should be able to pick up all the application information that way. Finally, depending on your desktop, remove the existing application menu from the panel and add an application launcher with calls your new application. For extra credit, why not package up the result and get it into Debian? :) [1] https://freedesktop.org/www/Specifications/menu-spec/ > Regards, > Divya Subramanian
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