On 5 June 2012 14:15, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote: >> I'm looking for help with reorganizing the TDE menu when TDE and KDE4 menu are >> installed concurrently. >> >> In a word: clutter. >> >> I'm getting ready to push a huge patch set that will help >> liberate TDE using our own XDG registrations. That effort >> will help avoid potential conflicts with KDE4. More to come >> about that patch set (refer to bug report 892), but the >> patch is looking very good at the moment. >> >> A while ago I filed bug report 977 (http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=977). >> Please read the bug report to understand the goal of moving >> the KDE4 menu items. >> >> I want to create a separate KDE4 top-level menu and let the >> KDE4 menu appear there. >> >> Although KDE4 apps are uniquely identified with a "[KDE4]" >> text marker in the menu (created in >> tdelibs/kio/kio/kservice.cpp), when TDE is installed >> concurrently with KDE4 there is nonetheless some serious >> menu clutter. Moving KDE4 menus to their own location would >> reduce that clutter. Moving allows TDE to display its own >> set of apps. Users decide which version of duplicate apps >> they prefer, but moving the KDE4 menu establishes that the >> user is running TDE. >> >> I'm thinking with the upcoming patch set that moving the >> KDE4 menus probably is doable. Now is a good time to test >> this while I finalize testing for the upcoming patch set. >> >> I have nominally tested adding a >> <Not><Category>KDE<Category></Not> >> set to prevent KDE4 items from appearing in a menu category. >> That removes the KDE4 items from the main TDE menu and >> reduces clutter. >> >> I'm struggling to get the KDE4 menu to appear by itself in >> the top level. Basically I want to merge >> /etc/kde/xdg/menus/applications.menu into the TDE >> applications.menu. >> >> I appreciate any help. > > Although I have not found a way to create a top-level KDE4 menu, I found a way to create a separate KDE4 menu in each individual menu. Here is a sample screen shot: > > http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/build_logs/tde-menu-with-kde4.png > > Notice I temporarily patched tdelibs to not append the app name with "[KDE4]", which no longer is necessary with this new menu layout. > > When KDE4 is not installed then the Trinity menu looks normal, like this: > > http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/trinity/build_logs/tde-menu-no-kde4.png > > I appreciate comments! > > Darrell Darrell this is nice - I like to avoid being confused by my KDE4 applications while in trinity and visa-versa Calvin
