2012/7/6 Dan Espen <des...@verizon.net> wrote: > Your code is pretty ingenious, and it solves the single biggest > issue I had with the xdg spec. Ie. if finds all the menus a WM > might want to make visible to the user. I'm very pleased to hear that the implementation suits your needs :-)
> If we go this route, > it would be nice if you included some of the comments > you made. At least for me, not all of this was obvious. Will do that then. >> I was thinking of leaving the choice of menus to generate up to >> the user. Of course the distros could do the logical thing >> and create a single menu hierarchy or at least set some rules. >> >> Yes, I thought the same. Not known how to do it with FvwmForm or >> FvwmScript but I could implement >> an option in fvwm-menu-desktop to printout a string with menus found on >> the system like >> --show-menus=[all, de-selected] and then the user can select/deselect >> via checkboxes which menus >> she/he wants to display. For that I have to rewrite the --desktop and >> --menu-type functionality to handle >> lists then. > > You'd want something like fvwm-menu-directory front ending FvwmForm. With fvwm-menu-desktop it's better because the menus can checked if they're empty. > I got a little feedback from the xdg folks: > ... > It doesn't sound to me like they are going to address the issue in the > near term. Yep, looks so. > I'd like to implement what's best for Fvwm. That's also my intend. > If XDG gets it's act together later we can replace what we've done > with something simpler. I don't think they will change it in the future anymore. > So maybe you can clean up this version a bit more > and submit as a patch? I've submitted the patch in another email - "Second try ..." but afterwards it was silly to put it in another thread because it belongs to this one. Sorry about that. Won't be happen anymore. Would you answer that email in this thread then? Or is this yet impossible now? > Thanks for your efforts, > and I'm getting a few python lessons along the way... You're welcome ^^ Thomas
