Getting the right xdg-menu category name given a xdg-desktop file?

[Jerome Leclanche]

If you're looking for code,
https://github.com/lxde/libqtxdg/blob/master/xdgmenu.cpp is a good
starting point.
J. Leclanche


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:26 PM, José Félix Ontañon
<fontanon at emergya.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to build an app that automatizes the excluding of some launchers
> from menu, by tweaking ~/.config/xdg/menus I've noticed the Categories in
> the xdg-desktop aren't the same as the menu names in xdg-menu.
>
> So, the question is given a .desktop file, how to know the name of it's
> corresponding menu?
>
> ::Example::
>
> The firefox desktop file has as categories:
> Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
>
> But the the menu names that needs to be indicated to exclude firefox from
> the menu is Applications->Internet. Below the code produced by Alacarte:
>
> <Menu>
>     <Name>Applications</Name>
>     <MergeFile
> type="parent">/etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu</MergeFile>
>     <Menu>
>         <Name>Internet</Name>
>         <Exclude>
>             <Filename>firefox.desktop</Filename>
>         </Exclude>
>     </Menu>
> </Menu>
>
> I don't understand how Alacarte got that Applications->Internet path given
> the firefox.desktop file.
>
> Regards!
>
> --
> J. Félix Ontañón Carmona
>
>
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