Re: [dwm] I like Dmenu a little simpler

Are you thinking on convert the the freedesktop menus into dmenu_path?

would be easy to do if we find .desktop files in the proper directory. it
will be faster, btw not all gui applications follow the freedesktop
standards. For those..we can probably look for binaries linking against X11.

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:14:59AM +0100, Enno Gottox Boland wrote:
> this is not be done by dmenu but by dmenu_path. This is a simple shellscript.
> 2008/3/7, Pieter Verberne <pieterverberne_AT_xs4all.nl>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Dmenu automatically makes a list of executables which are in my $PATH.
> > I think this is pretty useless. Even CLI apps and apps I never use are
> > in the list. I like to make my own .dmenu_cache. So dmenu doesn't have
> > to update the list anymore. This could make dmenu a bit smaller. Is
> > someone interested in making it?
> >
> >
> > Pieter Verberne
> >
> >
>
>
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