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List:       dng
Subject:    Re: [DNG] What do you guys like about Desktop Environments?
From:       onefang <onefang_devuan () sledjhamr ! org>
Date:       2023-12-26 0:52:05
Message-ID: 20231226005205.dg7ygcmfcne5cm5g () sc ! homelinuxserver ! org
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On 2023-12-25 18:48:13, Didier Kryn wrote:
>    =A0=A0=A0 For what regards Dmenu, in all DEs there is an application m=
enu 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

-- =

A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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