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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Menu System
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On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 17:29, Mario Andres Yepes C wrote:
> 
> I think thats the basic idea... The thing would be that portage should provide 
> a couple of functions to easy the process of adding an entry to the menu.
> 
> Somethink like
> 
> add_menu(){
>     mkdir -p ${MENUDIR}
>     cat >> ${MENUDIR}/${PN} << EOF
> ?package(${P}):  section="$2" icon="$3" title="$4" longtitle="$5" needs="$1" 
> command="oo$1" $mimetypes_item 
> EOF
> }
> 
> So in an ebuild you could have...
> 
> add_menu Applications/Games amor.png "A waste of cpu" "Amor, a game" x11
> 
> Of course this is just a quick idea, I think that the function could be better 
> implemented so the way to call it is more straight forward.
> 

Hi!

My thought on this issue would be the addition of a 'domenu' helper
script that could be a one line addition in the src_install function.

The 'domenu' script would cascade through the desktop USE variables
(i.e. gnome, kde, etc , might have to add some for other desktops that
don't already have a USE variable.)  If the USE variable for a
particlular desktop is set then insert a menu item.  for example (off
the top of my head, so illustrative, not ncessarily working),

if use gnome; then
    if [ -e ${FILESDIR}/${PN}.desktop]; then
	SUBMENU=$( grep Type $