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Re: [trinity-devel] Proposed new applications page for the web site

From: Kate Draven <borgqueen4@...>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:41:05 -0500
On Saturday 19 November 2011, Darrell Anderson wrote:
> > Regarding the proposed new
> > Applications page for the web site, providing descriptions
> > of all apps in the Trinity repository, please suggest to me
> > a programmatic way to:
> >
> > Extract the T-Menu layout to an outline format.
> >
> > Grep through my local SVN tree to extract app descriptions.
> > (Where is this information likely to be?)
>
> I could use some help with this folks. :)
>
> I want to create a list of all the apps in TDE, preferably based on the
> layout of the T-Menu. Any ideas how to do with without excessive
> hunt-and-peck manual labor?
>
> My goal is to create an Applications section for the web site that will
> include a screen grab and description of the app. We have nothing like. I
> believe such a section will add professionalism to the web site and TDE's
> image.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Darrell
>
If I understand you correctly, I did something similar with Ark Linux.
I used the xml for the kmenu and editing out all the code save for 
the .desktop entries. From there it was easy to create an apps list based on 
the kmenu content.

Hope this helps.

Kate