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# gde_appmenu
an application menu for gtk+ based desktop environments
gde_appmenu is an implementation of the application menu common to these
found in GNOME 2.0, Mate, XFCE and LXDE on GNU/Linux and Unix OSes. This
is however independent of any particular desktop environment and can
provide a quick and simple access to the installed desktop applications
in any context where the desktop provides no direct access. It works in
X11 and Wayland sessions.
gde_appmenu provides a simple floating, movable, window initially at the
top left corner of the screen, with an application menu that drops down
to offer various application categoreis as defined by the desktop
session active at the time. The categories follow the Freedesktop.org
menu spec standard.
## setup and build
gde_appmenu is written in GNU Guile and requires
gtk+ 3.0
glib 2.0
GObject-inspection 0.72 (or above)
GNU guile 3.0
guile-lib
GNU G-Golf (https://www.gnu.org/software/g-golf/)
installed on your system.
From sources, gde_appmenu can be built via the usual GNU convention,
that is,
./configure --prefix=<install dir>
make
make install
## run
To run it from the command line, first make sure
G-Golf's pkgconfig install directory is in the pgk-config
path (PKG_CONFIG_PATH), by, for example,
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/share/software/g_golf/installed/lib/pkgconfig/
and then
It can be run from the commmand line via
(install dir)/bin/gde_appmenu.scm
or just
gde_appmenu.scm
if the file is in your $PATH.
On GNU Guix, With the supplied guix.scm, you can obtain a shell with dependencies
set up already via
guix shell -D -f guix.scm
and then you can run directly from the source tree via
scripts/gde_appmenu.scm
This version only shows the English name of the applications; locale
support (showing translated application names per the locale) is a task
in the roadmap.
## license
Copyright 2022 Li-Cheng (Andy) Tai
[email protected]
This program is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3
or later, as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the license
text in the file COPYING.
gde_appmenu is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.
Hopefully this program is useful to you.
## changes
Version 0.1.2 20221123
* properly search for .desktop files via XDG_DATA_DIRS
* a guix.scm for development setup under GNU Guix
Version 0.1 20221002
* initial release
## bugs
To report bugs, go to https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=gde-appmenu&func=additem
## code web site and support
gde_appmenu has a main repo page at https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gde-appmenu/
The sources can be accessed vi git, and a mailing list for gde_appmenu is at [email protected]
Please visit the main repo page for details.
## roadmap
* locale support
* Wayland support improvement
* port to gtk 4
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