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Autor: onefang
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Para: dng
Assunto: Re: [DNG] What do you guys like about Desktop Environments?
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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