Jesús J. Guerrero Botella <jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com> writes:
> I have been looking around and found that each desktop installs its > own menu file in there, but there's no "generic/ballback" > applications.menu file that WMs like fvwm can use. So, can you give me > an overview on how *your* distro of choice handles this? Is there a > generic "xdg-menu" package or is the file generated using some script > of those available on the net? > > Even if you parse all the file in /etc/xdg/menus/ that doesn't solve > the problem in Gentoo from the root, because you need kde, lxde, gnome > or whatever else installed to get an xdg menu file. So, as I see it, > there are two posibilities if we want xdg menu support in fvwm: either > ship an fvwm-applications.menu file or fix it in the Gentoo side by > adding the file in a new package, and making fvwm depend on it. > > So, what do you think? See my other post. A distribution should either: create an applications.menu OR export an XDG_MENU_PREFIX. That's if they want to support xdg_menus. You can easily to this stuff yourself, but I'd say it should be done at the distro level. I don't think Fvwm should try to get into the root menu business, but we probably should create some .desktop/.menu files if we want Fvwm stuff to appear in the standard menus.
