Alacarte - lightweight replacement?

gazj · 2009-01-18 11:27:39

The title sais it all really, Is there a lightweight menu editor? I'm using e17 and want to keep gnome deps down if i can.

Any ideas?

Odd-rationale · 2009-01-18 14:27:14

I just edit the .desktop files (usually in /usr/share/applications/) and add the "NoDesktop=true" line to the end of those I don't want in the menu.

gazj · 2009-01-19 19:48:59

Just to make it a bit easyier add this to your bashrc

alias menuhide="echo NoDesktop=True >> $1"

then from prompt

menuhide example.desktop

Saves opening every file

The only real problem I can see is that everytime you have an update pacman will update the desktop file.

Thanks though is much better than all them deps

skottish · 2009-01-19 20:01:18

pacman will only update the desktop files in /usr/share/applications. If you put the custom files in ~/.local/share/applications, those will be read first.

gazj · 2009-01-19 22:36:52

Thanks for the tip skottish - Heres some updated code for .bashrc

function menuhide {
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
cp $1 ~/.local/share/applications
echo NoDesktop=True >> ~/.local/share/applications/$1
}

Someone who is actually good at bash can probably improve this loads

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Alacarte - lightweight replacement?

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