On 09/07/2012 13:40, PCMan wrote: [...] > A simple menu definition file used by old window managers looks simple > and handy. > Though you have to edit the menu definition file with a text editor, > ironically, with freedesktop.org spec, menu editing becomes far more > difficult. Nobody knows exactly how to edit these xml files and there > is no user-friendly menu editor after so many years. > I really think the freedesktop.org approach is wrong and it's the > wrong direction to go.
There's two things I really hate under Linux, their infamous XDG Menu Specification and the GtkFileChooserDialog... > Generating a simple menu definition file based on content of > applications dirs, just like what other window managers did in the > past, is good enough. In the picture below, an operating system from 1998 : http://imagebin.org/index.php?mode=image&id=220083 Categories in the application menu (manually created), some shortcut on top of the main menu, managing the all menu with drag and drop, no menu editor needed, only a file manager. That's just some subdirectories with shortcuts. Simple. That would be possible to do something equivalent, when a desktop file is created into /usr/share/applications, a daemon creates subdirectories and a symlink to the desktop file into the user's menu directory, then it's possible to generate a cache from this subdirectory structure, but you still need to monitor any of these subdirectories, since Average Joe may add, move, remove, rename some links into these. :D You also need to remove some dead links that may exist in those subdirectories. It would be possible to create an hidden index file in any subdirectory to sort menu items. I don't know if that's doable, that was working like this in the past apparently. (From the XDG spec) Legacy Menu Hierarchies Traditionally, menus were defined as a filesystem hierarchy, with each filesystem directory corresponding to a submenu. Implementations of this specification must be able to load these old-style hierarchies as specified in this section. I can't understand why they created that horrid XML menu specification... For sure, GNOME developers have other very good ideas like this, recently they removed the TreeView from Nautilus, I wonder how GNOME users, if there's still some GNOME users... will appreciate that brand new feature. :P > Please, I need comments and suggestions, especially those from packagers. > Nowadays KISS in LInux desktop becomes more and more difficult. > So sad :-( Difficult ? That's a nightmare. :D -- Axel FILMORE #--------------------------------------------# https://github.com/afilmore #--------------------------------------------# Vala - Compiler For The GObject Type System https://live.gnome.org/Vala #--------------------------------------------# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
