A program to create desktop/menu entries

[Mike McCormack]

Hi,

Sorry if this has been debated or discussed before, but I scanned the 
archives back one year and saw nothing.

I'm wondering what people's thoughts are on creating an interface or a 
program to add menu entries to the desktop.

The basic idea would be to run something like:

add2menus --name "Xterm" --icon "xterm.xpm" --description "This is my 
Xterm" --program "/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm" --workdir "$HOME"

The other end of 'add2menus' would be a directory of scripts that 
add2menu would scan, one for each desktop environment, so that an 
arbitary desktop environment could register itself.

There would be some way of removing items that were added, and 
specifying a location in the menu heirachy.

This would make life easier for those trying to create an installer that 
works on many platforms (like Codeweavers :).  Currently, to solve the 
problem, our installer needs to probe for each type of desktop 
environment that has existed, and fails whenever somebody creates a new 
type of desktop, that requires an new method of adding icons.

It would be nice to do something similar for MIME types too...

Comments, flames, etc?

Mike