Bug 188402

Summary:	[ebuild] x11-misc/kdelnk2wmaker GNOME/KDE menu to Windowmaker menu converter
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Federico Ferri (RETIRED) <mescalinum>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gnustep
Priority:	High	Keywords:	EBUILD, InOverlay
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://members.elysium.pl/ytm/html/kdelnk.html
Whiteboard:	sunrise-removal
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	x11-misc/kdelnk2wmaker/kdelnk2wmaker-0.06.ebuild

Description Federico Ferri (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-10 21:36:58 UTC

Windowmaker stay almost alone into portage tree. Let's give him some friends :)


Overview

Kdelnk2wmaker (what a fancy name, indeed :-) was the first (known to me) .desktop (or .kdelnk in old version) to WindowMaker menu converter which supports locale. It uses your environment variable LANG to determine the application name. If local name isn't found it takes default name and if it is still unknown, it shows the first argument of execution which is likely to be the application's name.

The output is in plain text format. Window Maker also accepts another format of menu - property list. Current version of kdelnk2wmaker can dump menu in this format too.

I was considering output in wmconfig format, but there's already such tool: by Yves Bailly ( http://www.linux-france.org/prj/kde2wm/index.html) which does such conversion. Unfortunatelly it doesn't support i18n of KDE, but one might easily change it to do output only in his native language (it's a perl script).

There are hooks for other window managers - comments (baloon help in KWM) and icon names are also parsed from .desktop. They have no use with Window Maker's menu but might be useful for other window managers.

Comment 1 Federico Ferri (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-10 21:38:23 UTC

Created attachment 127692 [details]
x11-misc/kdelnk2wmaker/kdelnk2wmaker-0.06.ebuild

Comment 2 Federico Ferri (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-21 16:50:46 UTC

added to sunrise overlay

Comment 3 Bernard Cafarelli gentoo-dev

2012-02-10 18:24:12 UTC

Dead project, there is wkdemenu.pl distributed with windowmaker which can help