Re: Running menu-editor with python-2.3

[Doug Rintoul <courtjestr gmail com>]

Right, this is similar to the patch I was going to post to get 
menu-editor to run with python-2.3.

A couple of other notes. On my SuSE system at least, menu-editor uses 
~/.config/menu/applications.menu to load its initial menu structure. 
Such did not exist and so it created one for me. The contents of the 
created file point to /etc/xdg/menu/applications.menu. But unless you 
compile garnome with --sysconf=/etc, this is not correct. I modified my 
~/.config/menu/applications.menu to point to 
/home/rintoul/garnome/etc/xdg/menu/applications.menu (I installed 
garnome in my home directory). From that point on I could use 
menu-editor to modify my menus.

Note that menu-editor does not actually change the system menu files 
(/home/rintoul/garnome/etc/xdg/menu/applications.menu in my case) unless 
you are root. All changes to the system menu are stored in 
~/.local/share/applications.

Another thing to note, menu-editor cannot change the "categories" ie the 
main menu items. It just seems to manage the applications which appear 
and each category. Also you cannot seem to add submenus.

Hope this helps.

Doug.
Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> In order to run menu-editor with python-2.3, you will need a definition
> for the function rsplit(), which is now part of the string module in
> python-2.4.
>
> This works:
>
> def rsplit(string, sep, count=-1):
>    L = [part[::-1] for part in string[::-1].split(sep[::-1], count)]
>    L.reverse()
>    return L
>
> If you are using python-2.3 and wish to experiment with
> menu-editor-0.4.3 
>
> 	http://dev.realistanew.com/menu-editor/
>
> add this function definition to the menu-editor script after the line
>
> 	import gtk
>
> -Joseph
>
>
>