1 Reply by NeOnsKuLL

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omns wrote:
NeOnsKuLL wrote:

Have you tried obmenugen yet? Did you received my email?

I gave it a try and to be honest I didn't like that it replaced the default menu structure for crunchbang completely. It also seemed to just do a very similar job to the Debian menu and I already have a panel applet for that.

First of all,  sorry obmenugen is bad documented, I'm working on that now. I don't know which are the features of debian-menu, but obmenugen have a short yet really useful features list, like exclusions, ultra-fast menu generation, etc. I think you should give it a second try. Maybe you should wait for the 0.2 stable release, and contribute with some recommendations or feature request, always keeping in mind that one of the main goals is KISS.

Thanks for trying obmenugen

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2 Reply by NeOnsKuLL

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arpbook wrote:

@NeOnxKuLL
hi,
just install obmenugen and it works fine. i think it's very usefull for base to work with: i explain:
i don't use thunar , so the entry "file manager" doesn't work. but using obmenugen give me a really good menu to work with obmenu. i just have to install whatever .deb i want and run obmenugen, then, i customize with obmenu.
really useful, thanks a lot smile

OK, I knew it's bad documented. Have you readed the README.txt file? There are FISRT TIME CONFIG instructions.
Follow this steps:
1.- Install obmenugen: 'sudo cp bin/obmenugen /usr/bin/'
2.- Run it with desired params. I recomnend (dinamically generated menu): 'obmenugen -p'
3.- Edit config file to your needs: 'nano ~/.config/obmenugen/obmenugen.cfg'
4.- 'Reconfigure' OpenBox
5.- Enjoy an always up-to-date menu (if you passed the '-p' param)
6.- If you want to exclude any menuitem, In "OpenBox Settings" submenu, click "Edit obmenugen exclusions". The exclusions file ("~/.config/obmenugen/exclusions") will be opened with the "editor" you defined in your configuration.

From this point you don't need to edit files from console anymore, except if you get wrong one of the config files.

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3 Reply by NeOnsKuLL

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OK, really thanks. I'll be awaiting your email.

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4 Reply by NeOnsKuLL

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@corenominal
Have you tried obmenugen yet? Did you received my email?

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5 Reply by NeOnsKuLL

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corenominal wrote:

Congrats on the new website. It is looks excellent!

Thanks man, web development is one of my most enjoyable tasks.


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6 Reply by NeOnsKuLL

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Hi all:
Everyone interested in obmenugen (OpenBox Static/Dinamic Menu Generator) could now see the project's web site at http://obmenugen.sourceforge.net

I hope you found it useful and enjoy using it.

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7 Reply by NeOnsKuLL

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OK, obmenugen 0.2beta is out. People who wants a copy, send me an email to [neonskull at gmail.com]

Thanks a lot for your interest

NeOnsKuLL

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8 Reply by NeOnsKuLL

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Hi corenominal, just give me some hours to change a thing I just noticed would be different and I'll be sending you a copy.

By the way, I'll be recomending this (yours?) distro probably to my parents, 'cause Arch has a higher difficulty level to they.

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9 Reply by NeOnsKuLL

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Hi, I knew this could sounds like spam, but it isn't.

Right now I'm writting a small app that do this. I'm writting it in the D programming language. The app it's in its 0.2alpha version, but is absolutelly usable (the alpha part is because I just re-written it in a Object Oriented fashion). In fact it's what I'm using (and 2 or 3 of my closest friends) each day of my life at both work and home desktops.
The features are:
- Generates a full menu using the information present in *.desktop files (with static content or dinamically generated).
- No dependencies (it is statically compiled in a 367K binary)
- In a relative modest machine with ~200 *.desktop files it generates the full menu in ~90ms. In mine's it takes 14-19ms. This feature allows to call it in a way that generates the menu dinamically each time without any notable time penalization. (***This is the key function to this thread***)
- Very configurable and simple to use.
- Support to exclude menu items throught a really simple (but confortable and powerfull enough) regular expressions subset.
- Support to exclude menu items based on the directive OnlyShowIn present in *.desktop files.
- Easy access to edit OpenBox and obmenugen configuration files througth a submenu.


I called the program obmenugen and here are some calling examples:

To generate (and overwrite any existing) menu.xml with static content.

$ obmenugen

To generate (and overwrite any existing) menu.xml with instructions to generate dinamically the menu content each time you ask for him (for the menu, right-clicking on desktop or via a keybind).

$ obmenugen -p

By now it's not hosted anywhere, anyone interested, please contact me for a copy. I promess I'll be registering a project at sf.net or dsource.org ASAP.

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PS: I don't use ubuntu or debian, I use ArchLinux, but I'm in this forums 'cause I really love OpenBox.
PS2: I don't really speak english, so, sorry about my mistakes.

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