Re: Fw: [gentoo-dev] [PROPOSAL] Menu system for all gentoo wm's.

[Spider]

CC'ing him here,  he promised me the sourcecode .

//Spider


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On Sat, 31 May 2003 17:17:28 +0000
Svyatogor <svyatogor@g.o> wrote:

> That's interesting! Could you please send me your friends prog? As far
> as I understand he doesn't mind releasing the source.
>
> On Friday 30 May 2003 15:09, Spider wrote:
> > hi folks, this came as a reply when I bounced the initial mail to a
> > friend of mine whom I have been discussing implementation and so on
> > with(quite a while before any discussion on the list)
> >
> >
> > //Spider
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > begin  forwarded message:
> >
> > Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:02:25 +0200
> > From: redhog <redhog@×××××××××.net>
> > To: Spider <spider@g.o>
> > Subject: Re: Fw: [gentoo-dev] [PROPOSAL] Menu system for all gentoo
> > wm's.
> >
> >
> > Kan du fwd:a mitt svar kanske?
> >
> > -----
> > Hi!
> > First of all both Debian and Mdk does have such systems. But they
> > are different, with different file-formats. In addition,
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec.
> >html
> >
> > specifies a third format, which is used by GNOME and KDE at the
> > moment. The system in Debian is quite broken, and the implementation
> > (the hack to convert from their format to the ones of the different
> > window-managers) even more so. Esepecially when it comes to
> > translating and transforming the menu.
> > We at TakeIT/Jamtlinux are currently using Debian (don't hate us for
> > that folks!) for a system for high-schools, and thus translation
> > into our native language, aswell as "dumbing-down" the menu (moving
> > all but the most frequently used apps to a special sub-menu), is
> > very important for our application. As the current  Debian hack is
> > so broken, I decided
> >
> > to hack a new implementation of it, in Python. I succeeded with a
> > minimal version (supporting the same input format and output to the
> > GNOME/KDE format) of this in just an eavening (the old hack was
> > written in C, and thus much clumsier than mine), and continued with
> > support for different input sources, like the one specified by
> > freedesktop.org. The program reads a set of menu-sources (files or
> > directory structures) of different formats using input-modules,
> > stores all tanslations find in
> >
> > the input-files and combines them with ones provided in special
> > translation/language-packs, filters the entries using simple
> > python-expressions, transforms them (for example their paths down
> > through the menu-tree) using other such expressions, combines all
> > the entries to a tree, translates them using the stored
> > translations, and finally exports them to one or more destination
> > files/directory structures using output-modules for the different
> > fomats. This hack is totally independent of the Debian distribution
> > as such (it depends only on the Python language), and I wouldn't
> > mind if you included it in your distribution and/or added some more
> > input our output
> >
> > modules.
> > /Egil
>
> --
> Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@g.o>
> Let the Force be with us!
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