Hi dep! Anno domini 2021 Fri, 11 Jun 17:48:18 +0000 dep scripsit: > Greets, folks . . . > > I just now spent five minutes looking in vain for PDF Arranger in my kmenu. > I have no doubt it's there, but in the decades of KDE3x and TDE I've yet > to have the kmenu search box work even once; meanwhile, items in the > submenus are spashed across them with no sense nor reason I can find -- > Settings, System, and Utilities are in many respects one submenu > distributed at random across three. Install a new application? Where is it > in the kmenu? It's not a menu, it's a *game*! > > (Example: I have the Gramps genealogy application installed. It's even on > the kmenu. Wanna know where it got stuck? Office > Database.) > > This doesn't matter if you have just a few applications installed. More > than that and you're screwed. > > The problem is exacerbated by new applications being installed any old > place within a submenu. Might be at the top. Might be at the bottom. Might > be in the middle. (And of course the classic favorite, in some other sub- > or sub-submenu entirely.) > > To make the game even more challenging, there's no practical way to bring > order to it. There's no way to arrange the applications in alphabetical > order within a submenu. > > And for advanced players, kmenu is festooned with some script that without > user intervention prevents the desktop from starting at all! > > Surely there's got to be a way to automagically (or let users) organize the > kmenu in TDE. Because as it stands, and has stood for decades, it's an > unholy mess. > > Is there a recipe or script or, well, anything? Well ... this the unholy grale of *.desktop ... Example: My build-script for pycam generates a .desktop-file with these entries ($NAME is replaced by "pycam" in this context): [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Exec=/opt/$NAME/start.sh Icon=/opt/$NAME/$NAME.png X-GNOME-DocPath= Terminal=false Name=PyCAM Comment= StartupNotify=false Categories=Science;X-CNC; Keywords=cnc;linuxcnc;$NAME The line with "Category" says where the most ingeniouse creator of the .desktop-file would like it to appear in the menus. In my case, it sould be placed in "X-CNC" which is the submenu of linuxcnc. If that's not there it will go to "Science". And if that's not existing, too, "Science" will hopefully be created. If the author of the .desktop-file would have given a second thought on this he probably would have realized that moving "pycan" to "Science" as fallback does not make great sense. But he (my inferior me) only uses this package on computers with linuxcnc, so it did not occur to him. As time goes by linuxcnc did not work on chimera for some time (python 2 got removed), and my brighter side complained to my inferior me about the stupidity of putting "pycam" in the alternative location "Science/pycam" when linuxcnc is not installed. My inferior me was able to solve that naging problem ... no, not by changing the .desktop file (that would have been too easy) but by checking out linuxcnc-master, which happens to work with python3 now ... so bug fixed, brilliant :) Nik > -- > dep > > Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album > Column: https://www.athensnews.com/opinion/columns/the_view_from_mudsock_heights/ > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
