On 2023-12-25 18:48:13, Didier Kryn wrote:
> For what regards Dmenu, in all DEs there is an application menu for
> all applications which are "integrated" in the Freedesktop sense, which
> just means they come with a .desktop file stored in
> /usr/share/applications/ . Do you, Steve, find it feasible to
> automatically read all the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ and
> build a Dmenu tree for all of them? Each .desktop file includes a
> "category" which drives the structure of the menu as a two-level tree.
I did that once for the Enlightenment DE, wrote code for it to convert
those FreeDesktop.Org (FDO) .desktop files into it's menu. There's a
reason I replace the F in FDO with a strong swear word, and the O with
"Obscenities".
There's more tahn just /usr/share/applications/*.desktop
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coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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