On Wednesday 28 September 2005 00:32, Chakkaradeep C C wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> >> was unable to find where the "Applications" Menu gets added.
> >
> >that happens in PanelServiceMenu. KMenu::initialize() makes a call to
> >PanelServiceMenu::initialize() which calls doInitialize which call
> > fillMenu
>
> i got the above function, but now since i want to place the applications in
> my own custom group name rather than using "Application,Development,Games",
> how should i proceed...does kappfinder plays a role here?..

in that case you won't want to follow the groupings as provided by
KServiceGroup. you'll just want to get all the applications available and
store them in your own tree arrangement. you can query sycoca  (sycoca ==
SYstem COnfiguraton CAche) by application name or keywords.

> what does,
> "KServiceGroup::Ptr g(static_cast<KServiceGroup *>(e));" statement
> do?

e and e1 are KSycocaEntry objects; KServiceGroup is a KSycocaEntry subclass
that represents a group of "services" (in this case, application entries as
described by .desktop files). so this cast is necessary to change the pointer
type from a KSycocaEntry to a KServiceGroup.

> if ( nbChildCount == 1 && g->allowInline() && g->inlineAlias())

this bit of code just inlines submenus of only one item. so this:

       Menu A
               Menu B
                       Item 1
               Menu C
                       Item 2
                       Item 3
               Item 4
               Item 5
               Item 6

becomes:

       Menu A
               Menu C
                       Item 2
                       Item 3
               Item 1
               Item 4
               Item 5
               Item 6