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Bionic Apple

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Registered: 2008-08-05

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Making a Wine sub-menu

UPDATE: It is all figured out and I have fulfilled my promise to put it in the Arch wiki.

I have Gnome installed and am putting together a Wine menu under the Applications menu.  I can piece together a fairly good one, but there are a few questions I would to ask.  If they don't get answered, I might have to bug more IRC channels!  Oh, and if I am allowed to, I promise I will put it in the Wine wiki entry because this is useful information.

- How would I make a Programs menu in the Wine submenu which updates by itself?  I've seen this in many other distros, but I have no clue how to get it on Arch!  If you want a good example, go look at Ubuntu.  Actually, I posted a picture below of that very menu!  Just ignore the uTorrent option.

- Which command is for "Browse C:\ Drive"

- What commands should I have in there?  So far I have the configuration and uninstaller tools.

- When I change my iconset, all of my icons change immediately.  However, since I made the Wine menus from scratch with icons from ~/.icons, are these going to change dynamically, too?

Last edited by Bionic Apple (2008-09-14 22:33:17)

Bionic Apple

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Re: Making a Wine sub-menu

No one knows?  Absolutely no one has made this menu on Arch?

sand_man

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Re: Making a Wine sub-menu

I had been wondering this too. But I no longer use gnome so I no longer care.
I happy to run from a terminal.

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qdiesel

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Registered: 2008-05-19

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Re: Making a Wine sub-menu

winebrowser c:\\
hope that'll help you

Bionic Apple

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Re: Making a Wine sub-menu

winebrowser c:\\
hope that'll help you

Thanks! That takes care of the "Browse C:\ Drive" Option.

Plus, I decided to install an application under Wine to see if it would make the menu by itself.  And, it did.  As a result, I only have three questions left.  How do I make the icons change by themselves when I change the icon set?  What other commands should I put in the menu, as exploring /usr/bin and using "locate wine" will reveal some other Wine applications?  Then, do any icon sets that come with Gnome have Wine symbols in them?  I want to suggest some default icons in the Wiki entry I will make.

Oh, and here it is so far: Full size

Last edited by Bionic Apple (2008-08-23 02:05:35)

Bionic Apple

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Re: Making a Wine sub-menu

Bump, new questions above.

Bionic Apple

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Re: Making a Wine sub-menu

Ugh, no responses?  Here are the three questions above in a simpler form:

- How do I make the icons change by themselves when I change the icon set?

- What other commands should I put in the menu, as exploring /usr/bin and using "locate wine" will reveal some other Wine applications?

- Then, do any icon sets that come with Gnome have Wine symbols in them?

Bionic Apple

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Re: Making a Wine sub-menu

Alright, I just have one question now.  Multiple IRC channels, wikis, searches, and people couldn't help me on this one:

How do you put a launcher/shortcut into the Gnome menu without Alacarte?  Please try your method before submitting, because this is actually harder than you think!

Bionic Apple

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Re: Making a Wine sub-menu

I thought that such a simple task would be easy!  Anyone know how the Wine Gnome menu is handled?

Bionic Apple

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Re: Making a Wine sub-menu

I would think this would be one of the most simple tasks in the world of Linux.

Bionic Apple

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Re: Making a Wine sub-menu

Still no responses?

Bionic Apple

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Re: Making a Wine sub-menu

Alright, someone showed me the final step over IRC.  As such, I have fulfilled my promise and added my newly-found information to the Arch wiki.