Pmenu - Puppy Menu Editor

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#21 Post by WhoDo »

trapster wrote:Nice conversation you two are having.
BUT, does my update work for you?
Yeah, sorry about the hijack! ttuuxxx has a hotline to my react button!! :roll:

Your update of Pmenu works a treat and will be included in 4.2 Final! Thanks trapster. 8)

FWIW, MU created a program a while back that allowed users to create .desktop files for new programs to be added to the menu. It worked fine too. I can see a melding of these two programs into a decent xdg menu editor for Puppy. My only beef with MU's program was that it put the .desktop files in /root/.local instead of the standard /user/share/applications. That would need to be resolved for any merger to be effective. Interested? :wink:

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#22 Post by trapster »

Thanks for the Pmenu inclusion!!

Point me in the right direction for MU's version.
I would not be able to get to it for a few days though.
ttuuxxx would probably bite.
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#23 Post by ttuuxxx »

WhoDo wrote:
trapster wrote:Nice conversation you two are having.
BUT, does my update work for you?
Yeah, sorry about the hijack! ttuuxxx has a hotline to my react button!! :roll:

Your update of Pmenu works a treat and will be included in 4.2 Final! Thanks trapster. 8)

FWIW, MU created a program a while back that allowed users to create .desktop files for new programs to be added to the menu. It worked fine too. I can see a melding of these two programs into a decent xdg menu editor for Puppy. My only beef with MU's program was that it put the .desktop files in /root/.local instead of the standard /user/share/applications. That would need to be resolved for any merger to be effective. Interested? :wink:

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Find the link and I'll give it a shot :)
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#24 Post by Béèm »

Pmenu-2 did install now.
I tried in upup-015
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#25 Post by WhoDo »

ttuuxxx wrote:Find the link and I'll give it a shot :)
Before or after CUPS b3? :?

Here's the link:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37450

Damn that Puppy Google Search works great! I entered "create desktop MU" and it came out top of the list! We need to have that somewhere accessible to our refugees, Is it a search option in our current configuration of Seamonkey? :P 8)
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#26 Post by Grizz »

Hi

I tried pmenu on 4.1 and the menu form doesn't populate with menus to eliminate.

Could someone please tell me the path and the files that configure those menus so I can alter them manually?


thank you

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#27 Post by trapster »

Gtkbasic and Puppybasic required for MU's program.
Is this standard in Puppy4.20?
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#28 Post by WhoDo »

trapster wrote:Gtkbasic and Puppybasic required for MU's program.
Is this standard in Puppy4.20?
Puppybasic-2.6 is standard but Gtkbasic isn't.
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will this work in Puppy 4.3.1

#29 Post by bigpup »

Will this work in Puppy 4.3.1?
Any new work on this?

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#30 Post by trapster »

I recall zigbert also did a pmenu for stardust.

Pmenu-0.1 was made for 4.1 and should work for 4.3.1
Pmenu-0.2 was specifically for 4.2
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#31 Post by zigbert »

Trapster
Your Pmenu is better as a standalone app. The one in Stardust is a configuration tool depending on jwm. Sorry for using the same name. - I wasn't aware of your work.


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#32 Post by jemimah »

I modified it so that the GUI doesn't need to reload when you click on something. I'm also thinking it would be easy to integrate this with LxShortcut for modifying to desktop files.
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pmenu not installing

#33 Post by don922 »

I have a frugal install of Puppy 4.12 I downloaded Pmenu-0.1.pet and attempted to install it but I keep getting the following error message. I don't think the download is corrupt because I downloaded it several times and from 2 different sources and have tried to install it a couple of times. Always the same error message.

There is no entry in >Menu>Utility for Pmenu.

There is no entry for Pmenu in the PETget package manager.

How do I fix whatever is wrong?
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#34 Post by trapster »

@ don922.

You say you downloaded pmenu-0.1 but the error message shows pmenu.0.1. I'm not sure which one you downloaded and tried but it seems like it might be jemimah's version.
Have you tried pmenu-0.1 from page 1 ?
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#35 Post by don922 »

@trapster:

I downloaded the Pmenu-0.1.pet from page 1 of this thread. When I downloaded Pmenu-0.1.pet and attempted to install it I kept getting the "error message".

I then deleted that .pet and downloaded pmenu.0.1.pet from Dingo's site listed on page 1 of this thread and got the same error message.
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Menu Editor For 5.0

#36 Post by hatchiebird »

I would love to see this tool for puppy 5.0. Need an easy way to delete programs and menu items that are no longer wanted or needed.

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IT WORKS....

#37 Post by paulhomebus »

Downloading the pet package from the top of the page does work for me in Puppy Linux Lucid - based on woof Puppy 5.

Now when you guys get that .desktop file editor goin to edit the menu, and an easy way to change categories or create your own.... we'll really be in business....

BTW - I've tried plenty of distros.... but I LOVE puppy Linux - thanks to the great community... let's make this distro better than windows, ubuntu & Mac !!!! :wink:

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Can't I really -edit- the menu, strange names like pudd

#38 Post by nancy reagan »

Is this utility only for adding/removing ?

Would like to be able to really edit in order to make it a bit user friendlier ffor those who were never on linux let alone puppy.

Would like to edit something like Wordprocessor - abiword Spreadsheet - Gnumeric etc.

Very confusing for Windowers.



etc.

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#39 Post by paulhomebus »

Once you figure out how to edit the files under /etc/xdg
you can then change the format of the menu's

Just editing the .desktop files will help you put applications in the right places.

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#40 Post by big_bass »

Hey trapster

a great app !
and your coding is logical to follow
I did some minor tweaks to make the JWM auto update the menu
to reflect instant changes you make in the GUI
I added jemimah's fix also --- thanks jemimah

*using TXZ packages I can permanently remove the apps from the OS
but your program is useful to hide the apps from users that may be confused by so many apps in the menu

thanks

I am posting the TXZ package for anyone that is using TXZ-pup
since a slack-desc file is also required


http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/Pmenu-1-i486-3_SLXR.txz



# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:
# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line
# up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' on
# the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must make
# exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also customary to
# leave one space after the ':'.

|-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
Pmenu: Pmenu (trapster)
Pmenu:
Pmenu: http://www.murga-linux.com
Pmenu: /puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40277&search_id=809322187
Pmenu: hide clutter from menu
Pmenu: with fix by Jemimah to not require GUI reloads april 2010
Pmenu: with auto refresh JWM menu big_bass sept 3 2010
Pmenu:
Pmenu: Package created for TXZ_pup
Pmenu:
Pmenu:





here is diff against the fix by Jemimah
so you can see what changed between them

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--- /root/Downloads/Pmenu.0.1/usr/local/pmenu/pmenu	2010-04-14 23:36:52.000000000 +0800
+++ /root/Pmenu-1/usr/local/pmenu/pmenu	2010-09-03 10:08:28.000000000 +0800
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 #created trapster March 2009 for Puppy 4.00, GPL
 #fix by Jemimah to not require GUI reloads april 2010
 
+# sept 3 2010
+#fix by big_bass to auto update JWM and fixmenus to reflect changes instantly in the menu
+
 #finds all items currently listed in the menu...
 /usr/local/pmenu/current_list.sh #writes to /usr/local/pmenu/current_list.txt
 
@@ -13,13 +16,14 @@ export PMENU="<window title=\"Pmenu edit
 
 <vbox>
  <hbox>
-  <text use-markup=\"true\"><label>\"<b>PUPPY MENU EDITOR                                  
+  <text use-markup=\"true\"><label>\"<b>JWM MENU EDITOR                                  
   </b>\"</label></text>
   </hbox>
   <hbox>
   <vbox>
 <frame Choose an Item Below to Have it Removed From the Menu Only        >
 <table>
+
 <label>Current Menu Item</label>
 <height>200</height>
     <variable>TREE1</variable>
@@ -27,11 +31,16 @@ export PMENU="<window title=\"Pmenu edit
     <action>/usr/local/pmenu/remove_item.sh \$TREE1</action>
     <action>/usr/local/pmenu/current_list.sh</action>
     <action>/usr/local/pmenu/removed_list.sh</action>
+    <action>fixmenus</action>
+    <action>jwm -restart</action>
     <action>Clear:TREE1</action>
     <action>Refresh:TREE1</action>
     <action>Clear:TREE2</action>
     <action>Refresh:TREE2</action>
+   
 </table>
+
+
 </frame>
   </vbox>
  </hbox>
@@ -45,13 +54,15 @@ export PMENU="<window title=\"Pmenu edit
     <action>/usr/local/pmenu/add_item.sh \$TREE2</action>
     <action>/usr/local/pmenu/removed_list.sh</action>
     <action>/usr/local/pmenu/current_list.sh</action>
+    <action>fixmenus</action>
+    <action>jwm -restart</action>
     <action>Clear:TREE2</action>
     <action>Refresh:TREE2</action>
     <action>Clear:TREE1</action>
     <action>Refresh:TREE1</action>
+    
 </table>
     
-<button><label>Refresh Menu</label><action>fixmenus</action></button>
 <button><label>Close</label><action>/usr/local/pmenu/close.sh</action></button>
  </frame>
 </hbox>

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