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

[Svyatogor]

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)
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> //Spider
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> begin  forwarded message:
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> 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
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> 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

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Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@g.o>
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