topic title: Suggestions to Tidy the Main Menu
Alanarchy
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Alanarchy
#31
But aren't the menu entries dependant upon Debian-menu, which requires improvement upstream of Antix?

Half the things mentioned up until now I've previouslly seen in both Ubuntu and Linux Mint. For example, under"other" there are always two entries for Synaptic, but only one ever opens Synaptic, and if you delete the second entry, it always comes back.
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SamK
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#32
Alanarchy wrote:...under"other" there are always two entries for Synaptic, but only one ever opens Synaptic, and if you delete the second entry, it always comes back.
Attached is a screenshot showing that the Other sub-menu is not created after the suggestions have been put in place.
Alanarchy
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Alanarchy
#33
You've got me intrigued now.

With synaptic I have two desktop files, one in /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop, and one in /usr/share/applications/antix/synaptic.desktop.

So I've now edited the antix one as you suggest, but what's this other one all about?

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Synaptic Package Manager
GenericName=Package Manager
Comment=Install, remove and upgrade software packages
Exec=synaptic-pkexec
Icon=synaptic
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=PackageManager;GTK;System;Settings;
NotShowIn=KDE;
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=synaptic
Can that file be removed?
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SamK
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#34
Alanarchy wrote:...but what's this other one all about?
There is no such file in the test system here.
Alanarchy
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Alanarchy
#35
There is no such file in the test system here.
There isn't on this system now, neither is there the KDE Synaptic entry, and now everything works as you say it should.

Thanks!
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SamK
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#36
anticapitalista wrote:SamK - have a look at the xdgmenumaker. It installs easily enough.
Running install.sh as root fails with error messages

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./install.sh
install: cannot stat `src/xdgmenumaker': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `desktop-directories/*': No such file or directory
Unfortunately due to competing priorities I don't have sufficient time to try and track this down just now so will not pursue it.
anticapitalista
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#37
You need to do it as root or sudo.
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SamK
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#38
anticapitalista wrote:You need to do it as root or sudo.
The errors reported were obtained after running command with root privileges.
anticapitalista
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#39
Did you download the zip file?

Make sure you have python-xdg and python-gtk2
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SamK
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#40
anticapitalista wrote:Did you download the zip file?

Make sure you have python-xdg and python-gtk2
Both the deps were installed but I had completely missed the download link.

After running Update Menu (Auto) and very superficial look it seems to have created the menu OK. All the entries appear as expected and the contents of ~/.icewm/application looks much the same.

So it appears to work, but the judgement about whether it is better than the current menu builder I will swerve and leave to you.