wine menus

[Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes]

Fredag 22 juni 2007 08:43, skrev Tom Spear:
> I actually did some testing behind .lnk functionality (unscientific
> testing, that is) with wine a few months ago.  Xorg actually fully
> supports Windows' .lnk files with 2 minor annoyances..
>
> The .lnk files could theoretically be used as the links in the menus
> if these 2 annoyances could be fixed (probably by Xorg, not wine)..
>
> 1) The .lnk extension shows up even in the menu
>
> 2) The icon is just a picture of a window with a white background and
> a MS flag.  If that icon could be changed to, say the icon specified
> inside the .lnk file, it would be perfect.
>
> Other than that, you can double click on a .lnk file and the program
> will be executed with wine (assuming BINFMT_MISC is setup properly on
> your system), including whatever command line options are specified to
> the program, in the lnk file.
>
> Now with all that being said, this still deviates from Freedesktop, so
> I kinda need to backtrack and say that I am not recommending that we
> USE those files as the menu entries. Quite the contrary!  I think if
> we can find out what license the xorg code to parse the .lnk files is
> under, then we could potentially use that code to help us with a
> parser, or if it is not LGPL'ed then we might be able to get the code
> author's permission..
>
> One other amendment to what I said above, because I haven't fully
> checked this..  It may just be KDE that supports the lnk files, and
> not Xorg.. As KDE is what I use, I don't have time to install/test
> with GNOME, or others. Someone please feel free to give it a shot with
> something other than KDE and post results back..
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Tom

Yes, that is part of KDE.  I'm not sure why you would think it was a part of 
X.Org :/



Alexander N. Sørnes

>
> P.S. While we are at it, can someone look into bug 3548 please?
>
> On 6/22/07, Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > At the moment, wine builds fd.o menus by calling winemenubuilder and
> > wineshelllink when shell32's IPersistFile_fnSave is invoked. This both
> > misses menus copied directly into the menu directory without calling
> > IPersistFile_fnSave, and provides no way to remove the menus when the
> > app is uninstalled.
> >
> > Wine also keeps .lnk files in
> > ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/<user>/Start Menu/ just like Windows
> > does, and those .lnk files seem like a much better representation of
> > the menus that should appear on the system, because they are also
> > deleted when an app is uninstalled.
> >
> > Is it possible to add a new utility, or patch an existing utility like
> > wineboot, to synchronize between wine's .lnk files in the windows
> > directory and the fd.o menus, instead of using
> > winemenubuilder/wineshelllink? Would a patch that does that be okay?
> >
> > Thank you
> > Damjan