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Note that this is for fluxbox.
The lack of auto generating and crappy generated menus is a real problem in antiX. I have not tested this yet and will not have time too for awhile as I am totally overwhelmed with school. I am posting this here hoping someone else is willing to test it for possible inclusion (with anti's approval) into antiX at some point.
There probably won't be time to test and integrate this into the next version unless anticapitalista is willing to delay it for this.
I try not to advocate adding things to antiX (we want to keep it lightweight) unless there are usability issues. This is an example of something that may help usability.Marchfluxmenu is an attempt to have the fluxbox menu emulate the Gnome (or XFCE) menu, in both looks and functionality. It first generates a fluxbox menu for the current user from all the valid .desktop files found in /usr/share/applications/ The menu entries are categorized in a similar way as Gnome menu, viz as Accessories, Games, Graphics, Internet, etc etc. The program then uses a daemon like script (mfmdaemon) to watch for changes in the directory /usr/share/applications/ If a new .desktop file is added/removed (for installation/removal of a package), the fluxbox menu auto-refreshes to reflect the change! You can also make changes manually to the menu items (NOT the submenu names themselves, yet!). They won't be lost while refreshing the menu.
anticapitalista, I would definitely appreciate a reply to this when you read it so I know I am not just talking to myself.