On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 07:50:26AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I suggest a simple text file to store all menu information in a format
> that doesn't require any specific parsers to be installed. Some argue
> and seem to have a point, XML is not that readable for many users and
> more often than not a tool is required to edit complex files. My
> suggestion is a simple format to keeps record of menu tree paths and
> the actual menu items as follows:
>
> placement="/path/to/menu/item/in/menu/tree"
> name="my cool menu"
> command="/path/to/command param1 param2 ..."
> icon="/path/to/icon"
>
> Empty lines should be easily skipped but for human readers they make a
> text file more readable.

Or something more nestable, such as JSON or YAML. No. You don't have
to use Java to use JSON.

Or even Lisp S-expressions.

Or, if you waant to be elaborate, which Steve probably doesn't, a few
menu-creating macros to be called from Guile.

>
> For a simple use case like this, I don't think using a dependency on
> MongoDB is justifiable.
>
> I can easily write a C function to parse this file. Steve Litt if you
> want I can write a couple of functions for you but give me the
> variables in which you prefer to have the file read.

I'm sure Steve Litt can do this, too.

--- hendrik