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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">GLEP:</th><td class="field-body">16</td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Title:</th><td class="field-body">Gentoo Menu System</td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Version:</th><td class="field-body">1.2</td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Last-Modified:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/glep/glep-0016.txt?cvsroot=gentoo">2003/12/11 21:19:31</a></td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Heinrich Wendel <lanius at gentoo.org>,</td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Status:</th><td class="field-body">Draft</td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Created:</th><td class="field-body">09-Sep-2003</td> |
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<p class="topic-title"><a name="contents">Contents</a></p> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#definitions" id="id28" name="id28">Definitions</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#abstract" id="id29" name="id29">Abstract</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#motivation" id="id30" name="id30">Motivation</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#rationale" id="id31" name="id31">Rationale</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#specification" id="id32" name="id32">Specification</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#credits" id="id33" name="id33">Credits</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#references" id="id34" name="id34">References</a></li> |
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<li><a class="reference" href="#copyright" id="id35" name="id35">Copyright</a></li> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id28" name="definitions">Definitions</a></h1> |
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<blockquote> |
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<dt><em>APP</em></dt> |
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<dd>A graphical application that should be listed in the menus.</dd> |
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<dt><em>WM</em></dt> |
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<dd>A program containing a menu manager (i.e. a program that can display a menu, e.g. a windowmanager).</dd> |
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<div class="section" id="abstract"> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id29" name="abstract">Abstract</a></h1> |
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<p>This GLEP handles a proposal for the following two goals:</p> |
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<li>Create a common menu layout, which would be independent of the WM. |
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This point is quite important for those people who use more than one WM.</li> |
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<li>Provide a common way to add applications to the menus.</li> |
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<div class="section" id="motivation"> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id30" name="motivation">Motivation</a></h1> |
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<p>GNOME, KDE, Fluxbox, to name only a few, have all their own ways of handling |
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menus. There have been several requests <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id15" id="id1" name="id1">[1]</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id16" id="id2" name="id2">[2]</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id17" id="id3" name="id3">[3]</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id18" id="id4" name="id4">[4]</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id19" id="id5" name="id5">[5]</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id20" id="id6" name="id6">[6]</a> from |
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users to streamline these menus. Furthermore there are several bug reports |
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about applications not having a menu entry <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id21" id="id7" name="id7">[7]</a>, but since there is not |
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standard way to create such an entry, they are just sitting around in |
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bugzilla.</p> |
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<div class="section" id="rationale"> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id31" name="rationale">Rationale</a></h1> |
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<p>The idea of a common menu system is not new to the Linux world, every big |
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distribution (Debian, Mandrake, RedHat, Suse) has such a system. The big DE's, |
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KDE and GNOME, with the help of freedesktop.org <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id22" id="id8" name="id8">[8]</a>, are also trying to |
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implement one standard. That will most likely happen in GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.2 |
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(Currently they are only implementing different versions of the |
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desktop-entry-spec, but interpreting it in an incompatible way). But there |
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are still many other WM's that currently don't support these specs. So we are |
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trying to base our work on the specifications GNOME and KDE are going to use. |
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(These are no official standards but evolving specifications). This has the |
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following advantages:</p> |
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<li>follow specified standards</li> |
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<li>i18n support</li> |
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<li>provide the necessary flexibility and modularity</li> |
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<li>integrate with small changes to our ebuildtree.</li> |
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<li>support for per system and per user menus</li> |
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<div class="section" id="specification"> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id32" name="specification">Specification</a></h1> |
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<p>We are trying to follow these specifications:</p> |
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<li>Desktop Entry Specification <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id23" id="id9" name="id9">[9]</a></li> |
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<li>Menu Specification <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id24" id="id10" name="id10">[10]</a></li> |
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<li>Icon Theme Specification <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id25" id="id11" name="id11">[11]</a></li> |
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<p>There are two libraries that offer an API to these specifications:</p> |
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<li>PyXDG <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id26" id="id12" name="id12">[12]</a> (written in python)</li> |
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<li>Desktop File Utils <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id27" id="id13" name="id13">[13]</a> (written in C)</li> |
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<p>Our goal is to patch the WM's with the help of these libraries to support the |
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specifications. APP's then only have to install a .desktop entry <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id23" id="id14" name="id14">[9]</a> and |
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optionally an icon and will be listed in all menus. This installation could |
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easily be done by two portage commands (domenu, doicon). Additionaly we |
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should provide a reference menu layout and icon theme and add a function to |
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repoman to validate .desktop files.</p> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id33" name="credits">Credits</a></h1> |
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<p>Based on suggestions from former discussions on the gentoo bugzilla, |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id34" name="references">References</a></h1> |
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1" name="id15">[1]</a></td><td><a class="reference" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5510">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5510</a></td></tr> |
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id2" name="id16">[2]</a></td><td><a class="reference" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10429">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10429</a></td></tr> |
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id3" name="id17">[3]</a></td><td><a class="reference" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4884">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4884</a></td></tr> |
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id4" name="id18">[4]</a></td><td><a class="reference" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25797">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25797</a></td></tr> |
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id5" name="id19">[5]</a></td><td><a class="reference" href="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=66754">http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=66754</a></td></tr> |
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id6" name="id20">[6]</a></td><td><a class="reference" href="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=263106#263106">http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=263106#263106</a></td></tr> |
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id7" name="id21">[7]</a></td><td><a class="reference" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25756">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25756</a></td></tr> |
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id8" name="id22">[8]</a></td><td><a class="reference" href="http://www.freedesktop.org">http://www.freedesktop.org</a></td></tr> |
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[<a class="reference" href="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-entry-spec/0.9.4/">http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-entry-spec/0.9.4/</a>]</td></tr> |
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id10" name="id24">[10]</a></td><td>Menu Specification |
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[<a class="reference" href="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/0.8/">http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/0.8/</a>]</td></tr> |
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[<a class="reference" href="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/icon-theme-spec/0.7/">http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/icon-theme-spec/0.7/</a>]</td></tr> |
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[<a class="reference" href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pyxdg">http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pyxdg</a>]</td></tr> |
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[<a class="reference" href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils">http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils</a>]</td></tr> |
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