[Goodies-dev] Hello xfce developers, i'm working on this project..

[Martin Forsgren]

Den 2007-12-15 22:51:17 skrev Türerkan İnce <turerkan at gmail.com>:

> this is going to be my first ever contribution to open source projects so
> please take my noobness lightly.
> Many users seemed to be troubled by lack of a software tool to edit the
> auto-generated applications menu.
> One day i started coding a small console program to hide some entries  
> that
> i did not want to see, later
> it evolved to a graphical application that can fully edit the application
> menu on its own!

Thougth about doing the same, but never came down to it. Haven't tested
it yet, but Ill hope Ill have the time to try it later on.

>
> this is also the very first time i coded with GTK:)
>
> in the attached file you can find the python program i made: Xfce
> Applications Menu Editor (shortly xfce-sme)
> simply unzip in a directory and run the file 'xfce-sme'. Its by no means
> stable but works %99 of the time.
> menu entries labelled "All" needs root access to be modified.
>
> i want to extend this project to support the menu layout structure
> produced with xml files as said in the
> freedesktop standards. I have a couple of questions that needs to be
> answered before i can move on:
>
> * how can i get user's preferred language automatically? (its initials
> actually, like en, tr, br)

Try use
imort xdg
import xdg.Config
xdg.Config.language
or
import xdg.Locale
xdg.Locale.langs()

Good luck
/Martin