Re: FVWM: Automatic application menus

From: Uwe Pross <keinFruehstuecksfleisch_at_gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:50:40 +0100

Hi there,

On 02 Feb 2004 at 13:32:05 +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:

> > I am looking for a script or a little program which scans
> > the search paths of my linux installation and makes fvwm
> > menu definitions for starting these programs.
>
> I don't think you want to have one large menu with all
> thousands of commands found in /usr/bin and similar
> places.

Right ;-)

> You probably want to organize them somehow, and this is a
> distribution specific thing.

It should not be distribution specific. A perl or awk
script which accesses a application database and checks if
the programs a installed would be nice.

> fvwm-menu-desktop

DESCRIPTION
     This is a perl script which parses GNOME or KDE menus
     defin- itions to build corresponding FVWM or FvwmGtk
     menus. The script can also build icon and mini-icon
     style commands for the applications.

There is no gnome or kde on my box ;-)

> fvwm-menu-directory

NAME
     fvwm-menu-directory - builds a directory browsing menu
     for FVWM

DESCRIPTION
     A perl script which provides an output to read in with
     PipeRead to build an fvwm menu containing a directory
     listing. Almost everything can be configured.

Also not what I am looking for.

I am looking for a solution which scans _all_ search paths,
say at start time, looks for certain applications, defined
in a database, and sorts them to a set of fvwm menu
definitions. If such a database is available the script
would be quite simple.

Cheers, Uwe
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Received on Mon Feb 02 2004 - 07:52:57 GMT

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