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href="http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/glep/glep-0016.txt?cvsroot=gentoo">2004/11/11 21:33:13</a></td> +</tr> +<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Heinrich Wendel <lanius at gentoo.org>,</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Status:</th><td class="field-body">deferred</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Type:</th><td class="field-body">Standards Track</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Content-Type:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="glep-0002.html">text/x-rst</a></td> +</tr> +<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Created:</th><td class="field-body">09-Sep-2003</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Post-History:</th><td class="field-body">04-Oct-2003, 11-Dec-2003, 13-Dec-2003, 4-May-2004, 11-Nov-2004</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +<hr /> +<div class="contents topic"> +<p class="topic-title first"><a id="contents" name="contents">Contents</a></p> +<ul class="simple"> +<li><a class="reference" href="#definitions" id="id29" name="id29">Definitions</a></li> +<li><a class="reference" href="#abstract" id="id30" name="id30">Abstract</a></li> +<li><a class="reference" href="#status" id="id31" name="id31">Status</a></li> +<li><a class="reference" href="#motivation" id="id32" name="id32">Motivation</a></li> +<li><a class="reference" href="#rationale" id="id33" name="id33">Rationale</a></li> +<li><a class="reference" href="#specification" id="id34" name="id34">Specification</a></li> +<li><a class="reference" href="#implementation-status" id="id35" name="id35">Implementation / Status</a></li> +<li><a class="reference" href="#credits" id="id36" name="id36">Credits</a></li> +<li><a class="reference" href="#references" id="id37" name="id37">References</a></li> +<li><a class="reference" href="#copyright" id="id38" name="id38">Copyright</a></li> +</ul> +</div> +<div class="section"> +<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id29" id="definitions" name="definitions">Definitions</a></h1> +<blockquote> +<dl class="docutils"> +<dt><em>APP</em></dt> +<dd>A graphical application that should be listed in the menus.</dd> +<dt><em>WM</em></dt> +<dd>A program containing a menu manager (i.e. a program that can display a menu, e.g. a windowmanager).</dd> +</dl> +</blockquote> +</div> +<div class="section"> +<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id30" id="abstract" name="abstract">Abstract</a></h1> +<p>This GLEP handles a proposal for the following two goals:</p> +<ul class="simple"> +<li>Create a common menu layout, which would be independent of the WM. +This point is quite important for those people who use more than one WM.</li> +<li>Provide a common way to add applications to the menus.</li> +</ul> +</div> +<div class="section"> +<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id31" id="status" name="status">Status</a></h1> +<p>Timed out (and now subsumed by the gentoo-desktop top-level project)</p> +</div> +<div class="section"> +<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id32" id="motivation" name="motivation">Motivation</a></h1> +<p>GNOME, KDE, Fluxbox, to name only a few, have all their own ways of handling +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 +users to streamline these menus. Furthermore there are several bug reports +about applications not having a menu entry <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id21" id="id7" name="id7">[7]</a>, but since there is not +standard way to create such an entry, they are just sitting around in +bugzilla.</p> +</div> +<div class="section"> +<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id33" id="rationale" name="rationale">Rationale</a></h1> +<p>The idea of a common menu system is not new to the Linux world, every big +distribution (Debian, Mandrake, RedHat, Suse) has such a system. The big DE's, +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 +implement one standard. That will most likely happen in GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.2 +(Currently they are only implementing different versions of the +desktop-entry-spec, but interpreting it in an incompatible way). But there +are still many other WM's that currently don't support these specs. So we are +trying to base our work on the specifications GNOME and KDE are going to use. +(These are no official standards but evolving specifications). This has the +following advantages:</p> +<ul class="simple"> +<li>follow specified standards</li> +<li>i18n support</li> +<li>provide the necessary flexibility and modularity</li> +<li>integrate with small changes to our ebuildtree.</li> +<li>support for per system and per user menus</li> +</ul> +</div> +<div class="section"> +<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id34" id="specification" name="specification">Specification</a></h1> +<p>We are trying to follow these specifications:</p> +<ul class="simple"> +<li>Desktop Entry Specification <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id23" id="id9" name="id9">[9]</a></li> +<li>Menu Specification <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id24" id="id10" name="id10">[10]</a></li> +<li>Icon Theme Specification <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id25" id="id11" name="id11">[11]</a></li> +</ul> +<p>There are two libraries that offer an API to these specifications:</p> +<ul class="simple"> +<li>PyXDG <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id26" id="id12" name="id12">[12]</a> (written in python)</li> +<li>Desktop File Utils <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id27" id="id13" name="id13">[13]</a> (written in C)</li> +</ul> +<p>Our goal is to patch the WM's with the help of these libraries to support the +specifications. APP's then only have to install a .desktop entry <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id23" id="id14" name="id14">[9]</a> and +optionally an icon and will be listed in all menus. This installation could +easily be done by two portage commands (domenu, doicon).</p> +</div> +<div class="section"> +<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id35" id="implementation-status" name="implementation-status">Implementation / Status</a></h1> +<p>This GLEP exists for a long time now, still it is not accepted. I will outline +the current status:</p> +<ul class="simple"> +<li>KDE 3.2 (x86) supports this specification</li> +<li>GNOME 2.6 (~x86) support this specification</li> +<li>domenu[<a class="reference" href="#id26">12</a>] has to be included in portage to be used by the ebuilds to +install a desktop entry</li> +<li>Somebody needs to write patches for the other WM's:</li> +</ul> +<p>We should focus on adding support to the following WM's first:</p> +<ul class="simple"> +<li>xfce, blackblox / fluxbox / openbox / waimea / kahakai, icewm</li> +<li>fvwm, windowmaker, enlightment, afterstep</li> +</ul> +<p>The following are not so important, but support some kind of applications +menu:</p> +<ul class="simple"> +<li>aewm / aewm++ / evilwm / windowlab / oroborus, amiwm, ctwm, flwm</li> +<li>golem, larswm, pekwm, plwm, pwm, qvwm, selectwm, treewm, trwm</li> +<li>vtwm, xpde</li> +</ul> +</div> +<div class="section"> +<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id36" id="credits" name="credits">Credits</a></h1> +<p>Based on suggestions from former discussions on the gentoo bugzilla, +mailinglists and forums.</p> +</div> +<div class="section"> +<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id37" id="references" name="references">References</a></h1> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id15" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<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> +</tbody> +</table> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id16" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<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> +</tbody> +</table> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id17" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<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> +</tbody> +</table> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id18" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<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> +</tbody> +</table> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id19" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<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> +</tbody> +</table> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id20" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<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> +</tbody> +</table> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id21" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<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> +</tbody> +</table> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id22" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<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> +</tbody> +</table> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id23" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr><td class="label"><a name="id23">[9]</a></td><td><em>(<a class="fn-backref" href="#id9">1</a>, <a class="fn-backref" href="#id14">2</a>)</em> Desktop Entry Specification +[<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> +</tbody> +</table> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id24" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id10" name="id24">[10]</a></td><td>Menu Specification +[<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> +</tbody> +</table> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id25" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id11" name="id25">[11]</a></td><td>Icon Theme Specification +[<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> +</tbody> +</table> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id26" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id12" name="id26">[12]</a></td><td>PyXDG +[<a class="reference" href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pyxdg">http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pyxdg</a>]</td></tr> +</tbody> +</table> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id27" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id13" name="id27">[13]</a></td><td>Desktop File Utils +[<a class="reference" href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils">http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils</a>]</td></tr> +</tbody> +</table> +<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id28" rules="none"> +<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr><td class="label"><a name="id28">[14]</a></td><td>domenu +[<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> +</tbody> +</table> +</div> +<div class="section"> +<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id38" id="copyright" 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