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MU · Last edited by MU on Wed 24 Sep 2008, 20:17; edited 4 times in total

Puppy 109 CE uses XDG-menus, and you can enhance other Puppys with them, too:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8957

There is a problem, though: old Dotpups and alien packages do not include the required .desktop file.

So I wrote a small wizard.
It will search in your alienpackages.txt from Pupget for entries without a .desktop file.
If it finds one it will check, if it includes one in a wrong folder, and will propose to use it as a new one. (for example KDE uses other folders than Puppy for the .desktop files).
If not, it creates one from standard values, and offers to edit the resulting file.

All .desktop files you create, will be zipped, so that you can send them to me via EMail.
This should allow to quickly build a huge database, so that we can offer them for download.

Download (15 kb):
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/System_Utilities/XDG-menus-for-alien-packages/XDG-menu-for-alien-packages.pup
requires these ones, too:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/System_Utilities/getdir.pup
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Libraries/Puppybasic-basefunctions2.inc.pup (not needed in Puppy 3 and some Puppy 2 versions)

The usage is simple.

1.) at start, you can choose to delete an entry, or create a new. So if you created a wrong one, delete it now.

Click on this link to see the following pictures, they now have hotlink-protection and can no longer be shown in this forum:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/System_Utilities/XDG-menus-for-alien-packages/

xdg4alien01.jpg

2.) Now you will see the list of all packages without a XDG-menu:

xdg4alien02.jpg

3.) Select one, and you can choose the executable to add. This is the program, that will be started from the menu.

xdg4alien03.jpg

4.) Now choose a category. This will be sorted in a corresponding submenu automatically by the XDG-system.

xdg4alien04.jpg

5.) The menu should work now with most Dotpups. Some alien packages might require changes, especially for the icon used:

xdg4alien05.jpg

6.) Thats's all Exclamation

You now can send them to me:

xdg4alien06.jpg

Thanks in advance to all contributions.
Please send me not only large collections, but also only small with just 2-3 entries.

Mark

Lobster · Posted: Tue 04 Jul 2006, 13:59 Post subject:

Great idea - 1 am using a pristine 1.09 (only NVU and XaraLX) I installed anyway. It offered to overwrite a file in /usr/bin called "getdir" - so I said yes

On running the program nothing came up - No alien packages?

It seems we need everyone to run this to build up the database as you say . . .

Smile

MU · Posted: Tue 04 Jul 2006, 14:10 Post subject:

You can use this one for tests, it has no own XDG-menu:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/File_Managers/FileRunner-2.5.1.pup

A small Tcl/Tk filemanager.
Install it, then try to add a new xdg-menu, choose "fr" as the executable.

If it still does not come up, run in a consolewindow:
alien-to-xdg
and tell me errors you get.

The "getdir" is a program allows to write relocatable applications.
I think I should add it as seperate pack:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/System_Utilities/getdir.pup
Removed it now from the xdg-dotpup.

Mark

rarsa · Posted: Sat 26 Aug 2006, 14:41 Post subject:

MU · Posted: Sun 27 Aug 2006, 05:28 Post subject:

ah, forgot that.
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Libraries/Puppybasic-basefunctions2.inc.pup
Mark