Re: [proaudio] Thoughts about menu entries and usability

[Frieder Bürzele <evermind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Kuther wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently looking at the mess in my default "Sound & Video" FDO menu
> (E17 and XFCE here) - proaudio stuff chaotically mixed with video and
> audio players, ripper, encoding stuuf..and the idea comes up to create a
> nice menu, e.g.
>
> 	menu root
> 	--> Sound & Video
> 		--> Pro Audio
> 			--> Sequencer
> 				- Aldrin
> 				- LMMS
> 				- MusE
> 			--> Sythesizers
> 				- ZynAddSubFX
> 				- OmSynth
> 			--> Recording
> 				- Ardour
> 				- ReZound
> 	etc etc.
>
> I know KDE and GNOME users can edit their menu as they like, also E17
> and lots of others, but e.g. XFCE 4.4 doesn't seem to provide that
> advanced menu editing..
>
> So I could do this on my own... or for all in a maintainable way,
> which means adding a package, e.g. "x11-misc/proaudio-menu" something
> like that which adds required default menuicons and generates the
> submenus (there are eclass funcs for "domenu" etc, so that wouldn't be
> hard), and an eclass, let's say proaudio.eclass that takes care this
> package is installed and provides some functions.
>
> But what do users and devs think about this?
>  - that sucks, mess around on your own box
>  - good idea
>  - i don't care
> :)
>
>   

We'll thats really a good idea.
I don't know if I get you right: You want to create a ebuild which
generates entries for xfce4.4? from existing .desktop entries?

I've seen you've added some make_desktop to some ebuilds.
So first we need to update any ebuild and provide a proper entry?!
(as long as the application won't provide one itself)

hm should we abstract these make_desktop and newicon into a eclass function?
so we needn't bother about the details?

Greetz Frieder


> Any comments on this are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>