root-menu using GTK+ ?

~HP · 2010-12-01 10:18:30

Cause I've never liked the openbox menu and I prefer something like GTK+, more nice to my eyes… I first used a menu written in C, I modified it in order to facilitate its implementation and extend its functionality… but, it would have been difficult to implement openbox_pipe_menu in a code written in C, and openbox_pipe_menu are so useful!

Currently I am trying to rewrite an implementation of the openbox menu in Python and PyGTK, GTK and because I love openbox! However, I also add new features, such as new attributes for some tags (menu and item), the implementation of a cache that can be shared since his path will be filled in the environment (readable by scripts executed through the menu).

As a result, In chronological order:

On the last picture, openbox_pipe_menu are supported… and you can see obpipemenu-places (perl version) using icons based on the mimetype of each file, icons are theme-based in convenience with the Icon Naming Specification. A little sample picked from the output of my hacked version of obpipemenu-places:

<item label="2010092312852475991680x.png" icon="image-x-generic" underline="0">

new attributes are icon, as precedently explained, and underline. What's underline? With underline="false" or underline="0" labels like my_script_which_is_marvelous.sh underscores are not converted to mnemonic accelerator keys (see: gtk.Label.set_use_underline).

Of course, my menu is WM-independent, it could be run with any WM and/or DE ; but, at the moment, it reads ~/.config/openbox/menux.xml

At the moment, program is still under heavy development! No download is available… but, if you have suggestions, ideas, anything else… comments are welcome! wink

Don't mod this topic-title in order to increase its positioning in search engines ! Thanks…

Last edited by ~HP (2010-12-20 00:01:52)

Unia · 2010-12-01 12:18:41

You should inform the Openbox dev team on that!

anonymous · 2010-12-01 15:32:39

What a tease! I wanted to download tongue

johnraff · 2010-12-01 16:12:47

Subscribed and looking forward to trying it out! cool

~HP · 2010-12-01 16:50:17

Using RSS feeds in an openbox_pipe_menu:

Amazing, isn't it?
RSS are cached for better performances…

Unia · 2010-12-01 16:54:02

~HP wrote:

Amazing, isn't it?

It is!

boromeus · 2010-12-02 06:14:05

^
Abso-f*ckin-lutely!

johnraff · 2010-12-02 10:56:27

Turn xml files into gtk menus? Can't wait!

~HP · 2010-12-02 15:39:41

obpipemenu-crunchbang-help using rss (and icons):

now, a menu_init script can be executed when the menu is launched, this script can be found on the following paths:

/usr/local/share/obgtkmenu/menu_init
~/.config/openbox/menu_init

First path depending where the app has been installed.
If the second path exists and if the script is executable, this script is preferred over the first one… the menu_init can be written in the language of your choice… thus, it must contain a shebang.
It could be very convenient if you use slow scripts like (rss and other http-requests): indeed, when the menu is launched, scripts are launched too (through menu_init), you can detach them with & using a sh syntax, and when you're about to see your menu based on a feed, it's instantly displayed, thanks to the cache (object retrieved from a file).

screenshot of the cache files:

cache files are read-only, cause they are serialized objects… minimal precautions are required, to my taste.
File sizes have been improved with rss files (less information stored, minimal), and now they are under 5.0K most of the time.

TRF · 2010-12-02 17:09:19

well looks amazing ... it could be a defining #cb feature, though reminds me a fluxbox menu a little

~HP · 2010-12-06 21:40:34

writing the manual, in English (approx) has started ... already about 80 lines.

Unia · 2010-12-06 23:09:06

So it's almost going to be released? Nice progress, keep it up!

~HP · 2010-12-09 15:59:40

In progress, based on gvfs, something like an imitation of a part of the Nautilus sidebar:

jpope · 2010-12-09 16:21:51

Looking good. Can't wait to try it out. wink

benj1 · 2010-12-09 20:21:15

~HP wrote:

In progress, based on gvfs, something like an imitation of a part of the Nautilus sidebar:

is this implemented as a pipe menu, or built in to the menu?

~HP · 2010-12-09 21:19:41

benj1 wrote:

~HP wrote:
In progress, based on gvfs, something like an imitation of a part of the Nautilus sidebar:
is this implemented as a pipe menu, or built in to the menu?

a pipe menu… using a huge, and sometimes ugly, code (spitted into modules).

Unia · 2010-12-09 22:06:50

Will this be released and if so, when? wink

jeffreyC · 2010-12-09 22:13:26

Oh yeah, I want this !

And as far as I'm concerned looking like the Fluxbox menu would not be a negative.

omns · 2010-12-09 22:37:11

This is looking really promising. I'm really looking forward to trying it out smile

~HP · 2010-12-10 15:12:26

so many of you can check out the manpage:
http://devblog.homeunix.me/share/man/obgtkmenu.pdf
and possibly see if there are mistakes (grammar and / or spelling) or if clarification is needed.

comments and suggestions are welcome.

johnraff · 2010-12-11 04:33:05

~HP wrote:

so many of you can check out the manpage:
http://devblog.homeunix.me/share/man/obgtkmenu.pdf
and possibly see if there are mistakes (grammar and / or spelling) or if clarification is needed.
comments and suggestions are welcome.

Any chance of checking out the app some time? smile

anonymous · 2010-12-11 04:35:44

~HP wrote:

so many of you can check out the manpage:
http://devblog.homeunix.me/share/man/obgtkmenu.pdf
and possibly see if there are mistakes (grammar and / or spelling) or if clarification is needed.
comments and suggestions are welcome.

I just got an error 403 Forbidden when trying to access that link.

~HP · 2010-12-11 09:28:24

anonymous wrote:

I just got an error 403 Forbidden when trying to access that link.

Sorry, my mistake using .htaccess (Anti-Leech protection)… should be fixed now.

Andreas · 2010-12-11 10:07:59

Nice menu, can't wait for it to be available smile What ob and gtk theme do you use btw?

~HP · 2010-12-11 11:13:55

johnraff wrote:

~HP wrote:
so many of you can check out the manpage:
http://devblog.homeunix.me/share/man/obgtkmenu.pdf
and possibly see if there are mistakes (grammar and / or spelling) or if clarification is needed.
comments and suggestions are welcome.
Any chance of checking out the app some time?

I will not release it while the man pages (in english) have a chance to seem written by a monkey…
is it clear enough?

Andreas wrote:

What ob and gtk theme do you use btw?

It is not the point of the current topic… sorry…

details make sense…

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