Gnome menu with Openbox: is my new idea possible?

Gullible Jones · 2005-07-25 20:28:25

I just got a really neat idea: an Openbox pipe menu that imports the Gnome menu. I was wondering... Is this actually possible? Or is the Gnome menu stored somewhere inaccessible?

Mr Green · 2005-07-25 20:36:19

sounds like menumaker .... have a google

Gullible Jones · 2005-07-25 20:53:40

Current versions of menumaker no longer support Openbox, and the last version that does is woefully inadequate. That's what gave me this idea in the first place.

phrakture · 2005-07-25 20:55:53

can't you just make a quick scan of all the .desktop files on the system (there's like 3 common folders for them, or something) and build the menu with information in there?

Mr Green · 2005-07-25 21:01:40

Or

http://ob3menuizer.berlios.de/

Package in AUR .....

Gullible Jones · 2005-07-26 01:13:32

Woohoo! Thanks!

Gullible Jones · 2005-07-26 09:48:22

Meh... Works, but doesn't create that many entries. I think I'll wait a few versions.

iphitus · 2005-07-26 10:02:27

Check what directories it's checking .desktop files for. Make sure it covers both the xdg standard directory (/usr/share/applications) and the GNOME directory (/opt/gnome/share/applications) and maybe even the KDE one, im guessing would be at (/opt/kde/share/applications).

iphitus

Gullible Jones · 2005-07-26 14:51:17

How would I go about that? There don't seem to be any config files. Also, the man page doesn't say anything about changing the directories that the menu generator scans...

iBertus · 2005-07-26 15:43:01

Ehh.. this thing looks like it just searches for known apps and addes entires. I don't see anything about .desktop files in the scripts... but I could have missed it.

Gullible Jones · 2005-07-26 19:01:00

Blech!

iBertus · 2005-07-26 23:11:03

Gullible Jones wrote:

Blech!

??? :shock:

Gullible Jones · 2005-07-26 23:19:24

What?

iBertus · 2005-07-27 01:35:37

Gullible Jones wrote:

What?

Sorry, that just didn't compute with me.

iphitus · 2005-07-27 04:18:09

It should generate them from the desktop entries, at least, that's the standard way....

grumble grumble something about people not using standards.

iphitus

Gullible Jones · 2005-07-27 14:05:07

Exactly.

Mr Green · 2005-07-27 15:03:45

Was going to suggest Denu but ....

Gullible Jones · 2005-07-27 16:05:48

Denu requires Portage. :x

Mr Green · 2005-07-27 16:10:20

hehehe

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Gnome menu with Openbox: is my new idea possible?

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