Suggested changes to the menubuilder etc.
Bill Medland
billmedland at mercuryspeed.com
Wed Dec 14 16:51:04 CST 2005
I am intending doing some work and submitting some patches to
"improve" the integration with the operating system desktop
integration. Rather than waste time coding up my ideas and
having Alexandre reject them I thought I'd start by specifying
what I intend and awaiting a barrage of complaints. So please
do comment.
1. I reckon it would be a good idea if somewhere we actually
wrote some prose that actually declared what it was we were
trying to achieve. I have a real issue with trying to decide if
the code does what it does because of a deliberate decision,
because either Windows or Linux or ... changed or because we
just had not got around to implementing what we want. Prose is
much better for that. I could put it in the Wine Developer's
Guide, in the Wiki (where?), or as a text file in the
winemenubuilder directory (my preference). Any comments?
2. My main issue is that we do not replicate the menu structure
under the start menu (and presumably the desktop too but I
haven't looked there). The program I am working with goes
several layers below the Programs directory. I see that
wineshelllink is able to take a path for the link but
winemenubuilder doesn't use that. I intend adding to
winemenubuilder so that it passes a more complete link, with
path, to get the depth.
3. I want to do something about looking for icons when the target
is actually data, not an executable. Either I will just use no
icon or I will see what I can do about looking up the handler
for the file type and going from there (possibly even using the
native OS's handler e.g. pdf files).
Any complaints?
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Bill Medland
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