menus & icons styles

[Olivier C. <oli...@fr...>]

Hello,

Our menus and mini icons styles "files" need some work I
think.

Here, a proposition:

We create a new subdir in the tree called appdb/ (any other name
suggestion is welcome). In this directory we have files with
informations for all applications in the world o:) and also
some menus definitions. Our menus, especially the menus-programs
and (mini)icons styles are build and rebuild from this data
base using a new version of fvwm-themes-menuapp (any name
suggestion?).

More details, there are a file categories which defines the 
categories we consider for an application: it may look like this

[category]
id=programs
name.en=Programs
name.fr=Applications
name.ru= ...
wm_icon=utilities.xpm
kde_icon=packages.xpm
gnome_icon= ?
contains+=utilities
contains+=office
conatains+=internet
contains+=text
contains+=system
contains+=science
contains+=graphics
contains+=multimedias
contains+=games
contains+=toys
contains+=miscenallous

[category]
id=utilities
name.en=utilities
...
wm_icons=utilities.xpm
...
contains+=basic
contains+=resources
contains+=development


...etc

Definition of the categories may need some discussions sub categories.

Then for each main category we have a file with the applications
(I prefer that than one file for each app). An application
have an entries of the form

[item]
id=netscape_browser
exec=netscape
# may contains "undefined" category at the end ... 
category=internet::browser::netscape
wm_icons=netscape.xpm
class=Netscape
resource=Navigator
style+=any style needed by a special app
... any other things that we need
son+id=preferences
son.{wm_icons,resource,style, any other thing that we need}=
son+id=download
...

I will try to start this, so I need comments ...

Thanks, Olivier