[Lxde-list] Advanced application menu for LXPanel inspired by MintMenu

[Joost v. d. H. <2no...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I am excited to tell you all that a first working version of my 
MintMenu-inspired application menu is online!

It can be found at 
https://gitorious.org/lxpanel-2noob2banoob/lxpanel-plugin-mintmenulikemenu/trees/master. 
It still has some flaws and it has not been thoroughly tested, but all 
of the features work. It is not really a MintMenu clone but rather a 
slightly alternative design I came up with. Feel free to check it out 
and tell me what you like/dislike about it!

A few notes for those who want to contribute:

* The project works with a handwritten makefile and you probably need to 
edit the makefile to match your system (it currently installs into some 
custom prefix which most likely does not exist on your system). You will 
most likely only have to edit the MKF_PREFIX variable.

* The project is made from scratch because I considered that easier than 
understanding and porting the MintMenu code to C and away from Gnome 
dependencies. I have chosen a directory structure which seemed easy and 
logical to me, but since everything seems easy and logical to the person 
who come up with it please tell me if you disagree. If you do so, also 
try to come up with a structure which seems easier and more logical to you.

* There is not yet a bug tracker for the project. For the time being you 
can email any bugs either to me or to the mailing list. I would 
recommend sending minor bugs to me in order to not flood the mailing 
list and sending major bugs to the list so that they are visible to 
other contributers as well.

* When you have fixed a bug, added a feature or otherwise enhanced the 
implementation of the menu, there are three ways to get your changes 
included in the project:
     * Send me the modified files. I will look at them with TkDiff to 
distinguish changes you made and potential differences between the files 
which may be caused by you working on an outdated version. This way I 
will know what differences to take over and which ones to ignore.
     * Send me the patch. Recommended for whoever does not have a 
Gitorious account.
     * Make your own Gitorious repo and file a merge request. Since I am 
quite a git newbie I may still have to figure out how to handle this, so 
don't be surprised by a slight delay. Recommended for those who have a 
Gitorious account or are planning to make one.

* Since this is mainly a spare-time hobbyist project it does not have a 
real map saying when something should be ready. It does have a 
roadmap.txt file saying what has been done and what still has to be 
done, feel free to pick something from the TODO list and work on it!

* In order to avoid double work it might be a good idea to tell 
lxde-list what you are going to work on.

* Stay tuned on lxde-list for updates on the project.

Enjoy!

2noob2banoob

P.s. The project does not really have a name yet. Throughout the source 
code you will find names like UnnamedMenu, MintMenuInspiredMenu etc. but 
I have not (yet) come up with a really good name. Any suggestions are 
welcome!