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anonymous

The Mystery Member

From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 9,418

Re: root-menu using GTK+ ?

Ok, about the manpage. For the synopsis, you can change the text to "obgtkmenu [options]". You can remove the Requirements section.

Also you included a lot of info about using obgtkmenu (everything after OPTIONS). I think it would be best to have a separate help document for that instead of putting it into the manpage. Especially for the Openbox stuff.

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#! Octo-portal-pussy

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2010-07-17

Posts: 4,171

Re: root-menu using GTK+ ?

Any progress on this?

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ShadowKyogre

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Registered: 2010-12-20

Posts: 8

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Re: root-menu using GTK+ ?

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).

I think I can help with cleaning up the pipemenu code, since I've worked on something similar in a project of mine that's similar to yours. Could I see what you have currently for this? (On a side note, you might want to look into GIO if you want to make a more lightweight version of the pipemenu since Glib2 comes with it).

For the man page, though, I have the same remarks as anonymous about it.

As for the menu itself, I have a few quirks about it:
1. You might want to make some enhancements to obmenu so it supports your gtk+ implementation of openbox's menu. If so, could you add the ability to drag items around in the editor?
2. Would you include a windowlist and desktop list? This might have to be hardcoded, though, and might be considered bloat since most other WMs would provide their own lists for these.
3. I'm not sure how or if the menu calls up multiple menus, so...would it be possible to have it take in multiple menu files?
4. Can you add the ability to specify icons from files? Sometimes a needed icon for a menu config might not be in the icon theme (and symlinking can leave a large mess).
5. How would this program make a separator with a label (eg: for menu sections, title headers)?
6. Now this feature probably sounds more bloaty compared to the other mentions, but would you implement recent documents using native GTK+ support? This would allow things like custom filters (age-based or not), control of how many items are displayed, etc.

Last edited by ShadowKyogre (2010-12-21 00:41:42)

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#! CrunchBanger

From: Elsaß (fr_FR)

Registered: 2010-01-01

Posts: 187

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Re: root-menu using GTK+ ?

@ShadowKyogre
1 to 6 have the same answer -> No! Sorry…
4 useless feature, believe me, I tested it enough…
Indeed, each program is expected to provide its own icon which is added to the current theme.
Otherwise, why not embedded image using base64?

Last edited by ~HP (2010-12-21 09:52:33)

Kuno

#! Die Hard

From: Osnabrück - DE

Registered: 2009-01-09

Posts: 648

Re: root-menu using GTK+ ?

Any progress on this?

Traduction: Esque il y a quelque nouveautées ??

pseudotsuga

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Registered: 2010-12-27

Posts: 13

Re: root-menu using GTK+ ?

This looks awesome! Is there any way it can auto update? I have having to add my apps to my menus.

jeffreyC

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2010-09-02

Posts: 596

Re: root-menu using GTK+ ?

It has been a while, any progress on this ?

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Kuno

#! Die Hard

From: Osnabrück - DE

Registered: 2009-01-09

Posts: 648

Re: root-menu using GTK+ ?

Just saw in another thread, that ~HP is no longer on #! as of December 22nd.

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/85263/#p85263

So it looks like we don't have to wait/hope for a deb-file anymore...

pitje

#! Junkie

From: me to you

Registered: 2009-02-10

Posts: 438

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Re: root-menu using GTK+ ?

too bad he never put it online, finished or not, it looked promising

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johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2009-01-07

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Re: root-menu using GTK+ ?

^Right, even half-done, maybe other people could have done something with it.

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pitje

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Registered: 2009-02-10

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Re: root-menu using GTK+ ?

^Right, even half-done, maybe other people could have done something with it.

yep

In retrospect, I regret not posting my opinion when he was still a member/crunchbanger. Doing that now would be unfair imo, since ~HP is not here to respond to my comments.

Ah well, too bad

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