are there any wm-independent application menus?

Siljrath · 03-29-2011, 04:45 PM

are there any truly wm-independent application menus?

or even partially wm-independent ones. ^_^

specifically, i'm looking for one to use while in xmonad, but ultimately want one i could take with me to any de/wm.

are there any truly wm-independent application menus?

frankbell · 03-29-2011, 09:54 PM

I have never heard of one.

Since the structure of the menu depends on the design of the window manager and its functioning depends on the ability of the window manager to respond to the menu, I would be mildly surprised it there were such a thing.

j1alu · 03-29-2011, 10:00 PM

For Debian, and the few window-managers i use, i can point them to /etc/xdg/menus/debian-menu.menu,
and got a similar sub-menu (called debian/applications) in all of them. How to achieve that in Arch i don't know (but assume it should be possible).

DavidMcCann · 03-30-2011, 11:02 AM

Since the window managers use text files with tags, and every one has their own markup, you're out of luck. You could produce a program to convert from one layout to another, but it would take you longer than to just do the conversion by hand.

Perhaps you need a desktop; they all use the same standard menu system

Siljrath · 09-06-2011, 08:09 PM

9menu is the best i've witnessed so far... pity it's not more widely available in various repos.

... i suppose there's docks and dock menus too though... i'm less keen on that aproach though.