Re: automatic menus for window managers

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On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 00:52 +0000, Piscium wrote:
> I tried to understand how the window managers in Debian get the
> application menus. It seems that it all happens as result of a Debian
> package called "menu", which keeps the menus automagically up-to-date
> for the window managers that bother to look at them with tools such as
> "update-menus" and "install-menu".
>  
> I looked through Fedora packages and I have not found anything
> equivalent, but maybe I missed it. Any ideas?

They parse the .desktop files (installed by packages into a standard
location, and you can put your own custom ones in a standard location in
your homespace).  You can use the locate command to see where they come
from.  Any manager is free to do the same thing.

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