application menu with full support for the additional categories

[Jasper St. Pierre]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Dominique Michel <
dominique.michel at vtxnet.ch> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I begun to make a xdg application menu with full support for the
> additional FreeDesktop categories for fvwm. It will be usable with any
> desktop/wm that support the xdg menu.
>
> https://github.com/domichel/fvwm-xdg-menu
>

As somebody with extensive experience with the XDG menu spec, please, don't
work on either this spec or apps that use it any longer.

None of the existing implementations are 100% compliant because the spec is
extremely hard to implement correctly, and it specifies weird things that
nobody wants or are unintuitive.

You're much better off creating your own system.

Before I continue, I want to be sure I am not making duplicated
> efforts. I googled, but didn't find any xdg applications menu with full
> support for the additional categories. Are you aware of such an
> existing menu?
>
> Also, I am looking for translated category files (the files
> into /usr/share/desktop-directories/). I was able to find such files
> for the main categories, but google return almost nothing for the
> additional categories files. Are you aware of the existence of such
> translated files?
>
> Last, it can be hacks for desktops like gnome, kde, and so on, as well
> than for some distributions. For now, I simply let xdg do its job,
> don't have much time and have other priorities as well. What do you
> think would be best to do with these hacks when my menu will be done
> with all the additional categories?
>
> Best,
> Dominique
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-- 
  Jasper
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