The mess in /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/OpenWith
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The problem is that puppy actually provides stripped .desktop files instead of using the prepackaged ones provided upstream. Just as an example, Abiword has many translations in their desktop file, but Puppy replaces it. This is fine for a lot of users, but I have been advocating for an NLS.sfs for a long time that would contain the full desktop files and all of the stripped translations. ...Actually a pet with an install script that only installs the requested language(s) might be a better solution.
I actually went through a lot of effort to localize jwm menus (in my jwm-tools) only to be crippled by the same thing. Another thing in woof-CE that could use localization is /usr/share/desktop-directories, but the standard is really too vague on the directories portion of the spec and Puppy uses a lot of non-standard categories as well, so that may need further discussion.
FWIW, the ROX-Filer that we used has pretty much stopped development and there are forks on github that have made some improvements in this area IIRC
I actually went through a lot of effort to localize jwm menus (in my jwm-tools) only to be crippled by the same thing. Another thing in woof-CE that could use localization is /usr/share/desktop-directories, but the standard is really too vague on the directories portion of the spec and Puppy uses a lot of non-standard categories as well, so that may need further discussion.
FWIW, the ROX-Filer that we used has pretty much stopped development and there are forks on github that have made some improvements in this area IIRC
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].
Except aren't you saying I was right when I first asked the question, and Rox doesn't actually need improvements - Puppy just needs to ship the .desktop files from upstream...FWIW, the ROX-Filer that we used has pretty much stopped development and there are forks on github that have made some improvements in this area IIRC
Do you know a good gtkdialog program? Please post a link here
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Oh, I think I interpreted "this area" too narrowly...disciple wrote:Except aren't you saying I was right when I first asked the question, and Rox doesn't actually need improvements - Puppy just needs to ship the .desktop files from upstream...FWIW, the ROX-Filer that we used has pretty much stopped development and there are forks on github that have made some improvements in this area IIRC
Do you know a good gtkdialog program? Please post a link here
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As far as reading the desktop files, ROX uses an old version of XDG toolsdisciple wrote:Oh, I think I interpreted "this area" too narrowly...disciple wrote:Except aren't you saying I was right when I first asked the question, and Rox doesn't actually need improvements - Puppy just needs to ship the .desktop files from upstream...FWIW, the ROX-Filer that we used has pretty much stopped development and there are forks on github that have made some improvements in this area IIRC
but nothing major has changed.
As far as "open with", see some of the cool improvements @
https://github.com/dtomas/rox-filer/commits/master
Just the fact that it has a clipboard manager is worth switching to it, but it also appears to iterate over desktop files in */applications/ to help select an appropriate app
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This is interesting .
Never had seen an OpenWith/SendTo being a link to a .desktop file ..
Yes , in former Puppies they were almost all links to executables or shell scripts.
The ROX-Filer when using the "Set Run Action" in the right click sub-menu on a
file or directory,
then creates all these exec scripts.
ROX-Filer does not create a link to the executable.
Never had seen an OpenWith/SendTo being a link to a .desktop file ..
Yes , in former Puppies they were almost all links to executables or shell scripts.
The ROX-Filer when using the "Set Run Action" in the right click sub-menu on a
file or directory,
then creates all these exec scripts.
ROX-Filer does not create a link to the executable.