Posted: Tue 18 Sep 2018, 08:41
Hi step.
Sorry for being late discovering your thread.
Good work!
A few questions if I may:
-- How does your take on gtkmenu compare with / differ from aragon's at:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 20&t=84166
aside from including vovchik's cairo capacity for variable fonts and such?
-- Why is a ready-made parsed menu file replacing jwm's menu NOT
included? I ask because as it is, your gtkmenuplus is just a skeleton...
IMO, i do not see the point -- sorry for being so frank -- in having a menu
"motor" with no parsed menu. If the user wants a one-column listing of
available apps, like in yourexample, (s)he might as well install and run dwmenu?
-- Would you consider somehow integrating mikesLr's XML work
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 426#961426
on the xfce menu as a parsing tool? Here's why:
One can use aragon's menu creator part of his spm3 for parsing the menu
in sub-categories if one
-- downloads his work (obvious, sorry!)
-- types (and waits a couple of seconds) and then
-- types
Except aragon's spm3 is 6 years old and misses a few apps, IMO because
new Puppies may have a few "Categories=" in their *.desktop files which
did not exist 5 years ago?
Which is why I am asking about integration of mikesLr's recent work,
which covers 300 plus categories, including PuppyLinux' headache-
inducing "X"-categories. (These "X"-categories may save the user a
few headaches, but not to the devs!)
(Forum member mikesLr has an additional comment about menus here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... st#1004801)
I hope that the above will be perceived as a constructive contribution.
BFN.
Sorry for being late discovering your thread.
Good work!
A few questions if I may:
-- How does your take on gtkmenu compare with / differ from aragon's at:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 20&t=84166
aside from including vovchik's cairo capacity for variable fonts and such?
-- Why is a ready-made parsed menu file replacing jwm's menu NOT
included? I ask because as it is, your gtkmenuplus is just a skeleton...
IMO, i do not see the point -- sorry for being so frank -- in having a menu
"motor" with no parsed menu. If the user wants a one-column listing of
available apps, like in your
Code: Select all
gtkmenuplus launchersub=/usr/share/applications
-- Would you consider somehow integrating mikesLr's XML work
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 426#961426
on the xfce menu as a parsing tool? Here's why:
One can use aragon's menu creator part of his spm3 for parsing the menu
in sub-categories if one
-- downloads his work (obvious, sorry!)
-- types
Code: Select all
spm3 -c
-- types
One will get a menu somewhat like in the attached screen cap.gtkmenuplus /tmp/spm3rc
Except aragon's spm3 is 6 years old and misses a few apps, IMO because
new Puppies may have a few "Categories=" in their *.desktop files which
did not exist 5 years ago?
Which is why I am asking about integration of mikesLr's recent work,
which covers 300 plus categories, including PuppyLinux' headache-
inducing "X"-categories. (These "X"-categories may save the user a
few headaches, but not to the devs!)
(Forum member mikesLr has an additional comment about menus here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... st#1004801)
I hope that the above will be perceived as a constructive contribution.
BFN.