Menu Editing - phase 1
- From: Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>
- To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Cc: gnome-doc-list gnome org
- Subject: Menu Editing - phase 1
- Date: 13 Jun 2002 11:43:36 +0100
Hey,
Perhaps it's not really the time to start up discussion about this, but
when is, right? Anyway, while doing some ARC [1] stuff for Sun, I came
up against this almost insurmountable voodoo creation of George's [2].
Unfortunately, this is probably an interface that we want to support
from a system administration point of view in the long run - so making
it less voodoo is definitely a good idea. So I've managed to do up a DTD
for the vfolder-info xml file of some sorts [3].
I figure it would probably be a good first step to decide on the DTD,
get the existing vfolder-info files validating against it, get it into
the build/install time checking of the vfolder-info and then move
onwards from there and start documenting it a little.
Let me know what you think [4],
See ya,
Glynn :)
[1] See http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/archreview if you really have
time to waste
[2] I think he's outdone himself ;)
[3] I'm not a documentation person and hence know very little of this
XML/DTD voodoo
[4] I will ignore all flames of 'you have no clue' because well, you'd
be right
<!-- This is the root element -->
<!ELEMENT VFolderInfo (MergeDir*, ItemDir?, UserItemDir?, DesktopDir, UserDesktopDir?, Folder, ReadOnly) >
<!-- Optional directories of .desktop files -->
<!ELEMENT MergeDir (#PCDATA) >
<!-- Used to override the default location of .desktop files -->
<!-- with /usr/share/applications being the default -->
<!ELEMENT ItemDir (#PCDATA) >
<!-- Used to override the default user location of .desktop files -->
<!-- with $(HOME)/.gnome/vfolders being the default -->
<!ELEMENT UserItemDir (#PCDATA) >
<!-- Specifies the location of the .directory files -->
<!ELEMENT DesktopDir (#PCDATA) >
<!-- Specifies the location of the user .directory files -->
<!ELEMENT UserDesktopDir (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT Folder (Name, Desktop, Include*, Exclude*, Query, OnlyUnallocated?, DontShowIfEmpty?, ReadOnly, Folder*) >
<!-- Name of the menu item -->
<!ELEMENT Name (#PCDATA) >
<!-- Name of the .directory file -->
<!ELEMENT Desktop (#PCDATA) >
<!-- Include specific .desktop files -->
<!ELEMENT Include (#PCDATA) >
<!-- Exclude specific .desktop fiels -->
<!ELEMENT Exclude (#PCDATA) >
<!-- Not entirely sure -->
<!ELEMENT OnlyUnallocated EMPTY >
<!-- Don't show menu item if there is no sub-entries -->
<!ELEMENT DontShowifEmpty EMPTY >
<!-- Query monkey magic -->
<!ELEMENT Query (And | Or | Not) >
<!-- Logical operators -->
<!ELEMENT And (Keyword*, (And | Or | Not)*) >
<!ELEMENT Or (Keyword*, (And | Or | Not)*) >
<!ELEMENT Not (Keyword*, (And | Or | Not)*) >
<!-- This must correspond to the Categories field in the .desktop file -->
<!ELEMENT Keyword (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT ReadOnly EMPTY >
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