9. Re: Add categories to "game" menu item (Erik Harrison)

[Michael Verret]

> Kind people,
>
> First some info about me and then my problem. I am part of the Zenwalk
> Linux team. One of my tasks is running the gaming site for Zenwalk,
> ZenGamer. My problem is that we have over 90 packages there and when a
> user installs the games, they all are displayed under the "games" menu
> section. This gets very large and "scrolling" kicks in once you have
> enough games installed. We do use the
> "usr/share/applications/*.desktop" files correctly as in
> "Categories=Application;Game;Action;" but no "Action" submenu of
> "Games" is displayed.
>
> I would like the XFCE menu to display game submenus as the *.desktop
> files dictate. For example, I would like to see the following:
>
> games: Action
> ------------ Arcade
> ------------ Board
> ------------ Card
> ------------ Children/Education
> ------------ Emulation
> ------------ First Person Shooter
> ------------ Game Engines
> ------------ Programming Games
> ------------ Puzzles
> ------------ Racing
> ------------ Roguelike
> ------------ Simulation
> ------------ Sports
> ------------ Strategy
>
> Do you know how I can accomplish this? Is there a config file for XFCE
> somewhere that sets these options? Or is there certain submenu items
> allowed, i.e. Action, Arcade, Child, but no Roguelike. Either way,
> none of the submenus ever show up.
>
> You help is greatly appreciated,
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael Verret (AxXium)
> http://www.zenwalk.org
> http://www.zengamer.tuxfamily.org
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:42:51 -0400
> From: "Erik Harrison" <erikharrison at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Add categories to "game" menu item
> To: "XFCE4 development list" <xfce4-dev at xfce.org>
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> On 8/12/06, Michael Verret <axxium.zenlnx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Kind people,
> >
> > First some info about me and then my problem. I am part of the Zenwalk
> > Linux team. One of my tasks is running the gaming site for Zenwalk,
> > ZenGamer. My problem is that we have over 90 packages there and when a
> > user installs the games, they all are displayed under the "games" menu
> > section. This gets very large and "scrolling" kicks in once you have
> > enough games installed. We do use the
> > "usr/share/applications/*.desktop" files correctly as in
> > "Categories=Application;Game;Action;" but no "Action" submenu of
> > "Games" is displayed.
> >
> > I would like the XFCE menu to display game submenus as the *.desktop
> > files dictate. For example, I would like to see the following:
> >
> > games: Action
> > ------------ Arcade
> > ------------ Board
> > ------------ Card
> > ------------ Children/Education
> > ------------ Emulation
> > ------------ First Person Shooter
> > ------------ Game Engines
> > ------------ Programming Games
> > ------------ Puzzles
> > ------------ Racing
> > ------------ Roguelike
> > ------------ Simulation
> > ------------ Sports
> > ------------ Strategy
> >
> > Do you know how I can accomplish this? Is there a config file for XFCE
> > somewhere that sets these options? Or is there certain submenu items
> > allowed, i.e. Action, Arcade, Child, but no Roguelike. Either way,
> > none of the submenus ever show up.
> >
> > You help is greatly appreciated,
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Michael Verret (AxXium)
> > http://www.zenwalk.org
> > http://www.zengamer.tuxfamily.org
> > _______________________________________________


> I don't believe that the menu generates submenus as of now
> Erik

Are there plans to add this feature soon? How trivial is it to add
this feature manually?

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