On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 07:18, Marv Boyes wrote: > Hello, everyone. I'm in the middle of writing a small Python program > designed to more-or-less replace my KDE/GNOME "start"-type menus (as I'm > no longer using either KDE or GNOME). I need to know where I ought to > look in order to get the command-lines used to launch all of the > programs as they're currently listed in those menus. I'm guessing it's > all listed in plain text or XML somewhere (right?), but I'm having a > hard time finding it. Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > If it's relevant, I'm running Mdk 9.2; my KDE and GNOME are versions > 3.1.3 and 2.4, respectively. > > BTW, I'm aware that there's already a Python program-- MenuMaker -- > which does something like what I've described, but it yielded some > really wacky results on my system. I want something I can customize-- > and I need to learn more about Python, as well. Call it a training > exercise. ;) > > Thanks much, > > > Marv
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