FVWM: A script for gnome-2 menu support

From: Bob Hepple <bhepple_at_freeshell.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:54:45 +1000

I was playing around with fvwm-menu-desktop and realised that it doesn't
support gnome2. So I wrote a hasty script with awk to do something about
it. Here it is ... I put it into my latest mondo configuration scripts at
 
http://bhepple.freeshell.org/fvwm2

(these scripts auto-gen a whole bunch of menus and buttons based on what
is installed on the machine - no more dead links in my fvwm!)

Pop this into your .fvwmrc and adjust the path to the script:

AddToMenu RootMenu "Gnome-2 Menu%mini/x.xpm%" Popup Gnome2Menu
PipeRead ~/.fvwm/fvwm-gnome2

By the way - I found that to get the old gnome-1 menus come up correctly I
needed to set "--lang C" on the fvwm-menu-desktop command line.

PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-desktop --enable-mini-icons --lang C'
PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-desktop --desktop gnome-user --enable-mini-icons --lang C'
PipeRead 'fvwm-menu-desktop --desktop gnome-redhat --enable-mini-icons --lang C'

Here's the gnome-2 script:

#! /bin/sh

# Very hasty and simple script to generate some menus for fvwm from the gnome directory /usr/share/applications
# Needs bells, whistles, options, flannel, improvements, documentation, kde. Nah.

cd /usr/share/applications
for FILE in *.desktop; do
        NAME=`basename $FILE .desktop` awk -F= '

/^Name=/ { name=$2 }
/^Name/ { if (!altname) { altname=$2 } }
/^Categories=/ { categories=$2 }
/^Icon=/ { icon=$2 }
/^Exec=/ { run=$2 }

END {
        filename = ENVIRON["NAME"]
        if (!name) { name = altname}
        if (!name) { name = filename}
        if (!run) { run = filename }
        if (!icon) { icon = "gnome-unknown.png" }
        printf("%s:%s:%s:%s:%s\n", categories, name, filename, icon, run)
}' $FILE
done | sed -e "s/^GNOME;//"|sed -e "s/^Application;//"| sort | awk -F: '
BEGIN {
        menu=""
        print "DestroyMenu Gnome2Menu"
        print "AddToMenu Gnome2Menu \"Gnome-2 Menu%%gnome-unknown.png%%\" Title"
}

function build_menu(cat,name,filename,icon,run) {
        num=split(cat,list,";")
        
        menu_name=""
        parent_menu="Gnome2Menu"
        for (i=1; i<num; i++) {
                if (menu_name) {
                        menu_name=menu_name "-" list[i]
                } else {
                          menu_name = list[i]
                }
                if (!exists[menu_name]) {
                        exists[menu_name]="y"
                        printf("AddToMenu %s \"%s%%gnome-unknown.png%%\" Popup %s\n", parent_menu, list[i], menu_name)
                        printf("DestroyMenu %s\n", menu_name)
                        printf("AddToMenu %s \"%s\" Title\n", menu_name, menu_name)
                }
                parent_menu = menu_name
        }
        printf("AddToMenu %s \"%s (%s)%%%s%%\" Exec exec %s\n", menu_name, name, filename, icon, run)
}

{
        categories=$1
        name=$2
        filename=$3
        icon=$4
        run=$5
        build_menu(categories,name,filename,icon,run)

}'

-- 
Bob Hepple
mailto:bhepple_at_freeshell.org http://bhepple.freeshell.org
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Received on Mon Jul 12 2004 - 08:18:53 BST