Learning GtkDialog (hopefully) -- and I have questions...

[starhawk]

OK, RSH, I looked at your script example for GtkDialog... interesting. I get most of how it works, and I think I can put together an app-gathering shell script based on it... I'll bang it out and post the script up for debugging (which I'm sure it'll need plenty of ).

[starhawk]

OK, prototype script attached... let me know what I did wrong

[starhawk]

RSH, have you had a chance to look at my script?

[seaside]

starhawk,

Technosaurus made a quick parsing utility for Desktop files which I've modified and added an icon finder that you may wish to use. The rest of the program categories could be added for each notebook.

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#!/bin/sh
# Program Launcher

iconfind() {
[ -f /usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons/$ICON ] && ICON=/usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons/$ICON 
[ -f /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/$ICON ] && ICON=usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/$ICON 
[ -f /usr/share/pixmaps/$ICON ] && ICON=/usr/share/pixmaps/$ICON 
[ -f /usr/local/share/pixmaps/$ICON ] && ICON=/usr/local/share/pixmaps/$ICON 
#ICON=`find /usr -name "$ICON"  -print -quit` 
echo $ICON #exit
}
export -f iconfind


for DESKTOP_FILE in /usr/share/applications/*.desktop ; do
	ICON="" CATS="" NAME="" EXEC="" LINE="" #prevent carryover from previous file
	while read LINE || [ "$LINE" ]; do
		case $LINE in
			Name=*) NAME="${LINE#*=}"'' ;; 
			Icon=*) ICON="${LINE#*=}"'' 
			 [[ ! "$ICON" == */* ]]  &&  iconfind ;;
			Categories=*) CATS="${LINE#*=}"'' ;;
			Exec=*) EXEC="${LINE#*=}"'' ;;
		esac
	done < $DESKTOP_FILE
	
		case "$CATS" in
			FileManager|X-FilesystemMount|X-FilesystemFind|X-FilesystemUtility)	APPLIST_FILESYSTEM="$APPLIST_FILESYSTEM<button><label>$NAME</label><input file>$ICON</input><action>$EXEC</action></button>" ;;
			X-Graphic-paint|RasterGraphics|X-Graphic-draw|VectorGraphics|X-Graphic-flow|Chart|Flowchart|Presentation|X-Graphic-viewer|X-Graphic-camera|Photography|X-Graphic-scanner|Scanning|OCR|X-Graphic-print|X-Graphic-utility|X-GraphicUtility) APPLIST_GRAPHICS="$APPLIST_GRAPHICS<button><label>$NAME</label><input file>$ICON</input><action>$EXEC</action></button>" ;;
		esac
	
done


export LAUNCHER='
<window title="Program Launcher">
<vbox>
   <notebook labels="Filesystem|Graphic">
      <frame>
      <text use-markup="true"><label>"<b>Filesystem</b>"</label></text>
      '"$APPLIST_FILESYSTEM"'
      </frame>
      <frame>
       <text use-markup="true"><label>"<b>Graphic</b>"</label></text>
      '"$APPLIST_GRAPHICS"'
      </frame>
   </notebook>
   <hbox homogeneous="true">
   <button cancel></button>
   </hbox>
</vbox>
</window>'
gtkdialog -p LAUNCHER 

Probably needs work to get the icons lined up nicely.

Cheers,
s

[starhawk]

seaside, that's interesting -- I like the Icon Finder part -- but I'm afraid I don't think it'll work for me. I want the GtkNotebook to update whenever someone runs a "fixmenus" style script -- such as the one attached to my last post. The script you posted doesn't allow for that

Can someone PLEASE look at my script and tell me if there are any bugs?

[Bert]

Hi Starhawk,

Is the script already supposed to run?
I tried it in Quirky Tahr, but it refuses to start up.
Looked briefly at your code and could not find the reason.
Could be me though, not seeing the obvious

Anyway, great start of what looked like a crazy endeavor at first!

[starhawk]

Bert -- not sure why it didn't work* -- it /should/ run -- obviously it needs debugging!

Can you see anything in the code that would either (a) not work as needed or (b) not work at all? The idea is that it reads through the pile of *.desktop files at /usr/share/applications and compiles a list, which it then categorizes and dumps into a set of text files. (The text files are later read by the Launcher app, which should be fun...)

*I have a hunch, actually. I wrote it in pristine Slacko 56 -- meaning boot from RAM, with work saved to a flash drive, lol -- so maybe Quirky has a different GtkDialog version?

[sc0ttman]

Bert -- not sure why it didn't work* -- it /should/ run -- obviously it needs debugging!

Can you see anything in the code that would either (a) not work as needed or (b) not work at all? The idea is that it reads through the pile of *.desktop files at /usr/share/applications and compiles a list, which it then categorizes and dumps into a set of text files. (The text files are later read by the Launcher app, which should be fun...)

*I have a hunch, actually. I wrote it in pristine Slacko 56 -- meaning boot from RAM, with work saved to a flash drive, lol -- so maybe Quirky has a different GtkDialog version?

In your script, you probably need to change

if [ `$i".desktop" |

to

if [ `cat $i".desktop" |

[L18L]

Bert -- not sure why it didn't work* -- it /should/ run --

You can see it running if you launch it from console.

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# ./laun*
Rebuilding SmallScreen Launcher application-list files...
./launcher-refresh.sh: line 51: Abiword-wordprocessor.desktop: command not found
./launcher-refresh.sh: line 51: ALSA-sound-Wizard.desktop: command not found
./launcher-refresh.sh: line 51: Bcrypt-file-encryption.desktop: command not found
./launcher-refresh.sh: line 51: BootFlash-usb-installer.desktop: command not fou...................

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# egrep --help | grep egrep
Usage: egrep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Example: egrep -i 'hello world' menu.h main.c
Invocation as 'egrep' is deprecated; use 'grep -E' instead.
#

hope that helps.

[starhawk]

Thanks both of you! I'll change those.