application menu with full support for the additional categories

[Dominique Michel]

Hi,

I begun to make a xdg application menu with full support for the
additional FreeDesktop categories for fvwm. It will be usable with any
desktop/wm that support the xdg menu.

https://github.com/domichel/fvwm-xdg-menu

Before I continue, I want to be sure I am not making duplicated
efforts. I googled, but didn't find any xdg applications menu with full
support for the additional categories. Are you aware of such an
existing menu?

Also, I am looking for translated category files (the files
into /usr/share/desktop-directories/). I was able to find such files
for the main categories, but google return almost nothing for the
additional categories files. Are you aware of the existence of such
translated files?

Last, it can be hacks for desktops like gnome, kde, and so on, as well
than for some distributions. For now, I simply let xdg do its job,
don't have much time and have other priorities as well. What do you
think would be best to do with these hacks when my menu will be done
with all the additional categories?

Best,
Dominique

[Jasper St. Pierre]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Dominique Michel <

Post by Dominique Michel
Hi,
I begun to make a xdg application menu with full support for the
additional FreeDesktop categories for fvwm. It will be usable with any
desktop/wm that support the xdg menu.
https://github.com/domichel/fvwm-xdg-menu

As somebody with extensive experience with the XDG menu spec, please, don't
work on either this spec or apps that use it any longer.

None of the existing implementations are 100% compliant because the spec is
extremely hard to implement correctly, and it specifies weird things that
nobody wants or are unintuitive.

You're much better off creating your own system.

Before I continue, I want to be sure I am not making duplicated

Post by Dominique Michel
efforts. I googled, but didn't find any xdg applications menu with full
support for the additional categories. Are you aware of such an
existing menu?
Also, I am looking for translated category files (the files
into /usr/share/desktop-directories/). I was able to find such files
for the main categories, but google return almost nothing for the
additional categories files. Are you aware of the existence of such
translated files?
Last, it can be hacks for desktops like gnome, kde, and so on, as well
than for some distributions. For now, I simply let xdg do its job,
don't have much time and have other priorities as well. What do you
think would be best to do with these hacks when my menu will be done
with all the additional categories?
Best,
Dominique
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[David Faure]

Post by Dominique Michel
Hi,
I begun to make a xdg application menu with full support for the
additional FreeDesktop categories for fvwm. It will be usable with any
desktop/wm that support the xdg menu.
https://github.com/domichel/fvwm-xdg-menu
Before I continue, I want to be sure I am not making duplicated
efforts. I googled, but didn't find any xdg applications menu with full
support for the additional categories. Are you aware of such an
existing menu?

Did you look at the KDE menu?

I'm not sure what you mean by "additional categories" though, exactly.

Post by Dominique Michel
Also, I am looking for translated category files (the files
into /usr/share/desktop-directories/). I was able to find such files
for the main categories, but google return almost nothing for the
additional categories files. Are you aware of the existence of such
translated files?

There are 172 files in that directory on OpenSUSE...