Hi, I added more info On 06/14/2014 03:32 PM, Israel wrote: > ... >> Hi Israel, >> >> OK, you know, when it is ready for other people to test, and to get it >> from a ppa is a good alternative :-) >> >> I think it will work with a themes directory in the .jwm directory. >> >> A clean menu is a good thing. But you should also consider, what happens >> when people install software packages (that automatically add entries >> into the menu). >> >> Best regards >> Nio > Ye, this is what I am talking about... the program menu works, to all > programs installed with a menu entry file. But the structure of the > menu is less than desirable. I am thinking we should modify the scripts > that create the menu and/or the menu itself. We can modify this by > adding a .menu-methods folder to the user's home dir. > The problem with the current menu is some programs do not create this > old-style menu file... instead they only create a desktop file.... > (firefox is one example). I think it would be beneficial to edit the > script to scan the /usr/share/applications for *.desktop and parse that. > > You are pretty good at scripting it seems (since the OBI is so > awesome). Could you install jwm & menu and take a look at > /etc/menu-methods/jwm as well as the other stuff related like menu.h > to see if you can improve it? I'd like for the menu not to say 'debian' > and have so many categories. It would be better to have a menu like > LXDE where is has only a few categories. You will also need to add .png > to the end of the icon names from the desktop file (unless they have a > full path i.e. /usr/share/pixmaps/example.xpm) > Unless we want to override all the icons and have the script look to see > if an overrided icon exists, and if so use that instead. > The icon file name doesn't have to be the full path, unless it wont be > in one of our default icon themes. > > I am only marginally capable of scripting at this point, so it would be > very helpful if you could look into this, because I think the menu and > the configurations are the 2 biggest hurdles to making jwm extremely usable. > > I am going to experiment using some icon themes, and see how it goes.... > I am thinking about using Moka, as it is really modern and clean > looking. I will test it out and post some screen shots if I get it > looking really nice :) > So you know:
the format for the menu items are <Program label="Text Editor" icon="accessories-text-editor.png">/usr/bin/gedit %U</Program> So you could parse the desktop file and use ... Name=gedit GenericName=Text Editor ... for label .... Icon=accessories-text-editor .... for Icon ... Exec=gedit %U ... as the executable part... I'll have to test and see if using gedit %U works without /usr/bin and also see if it works with the %U part.. Using the desktop files would ensure a much better collection of apps. And if we store the script(s) in ~/.menu-methods it should work as expected (though we will need to test this of course :) -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
