[awesome bugs] #1300 - FreeDesktop Start Menu Integration (Attachment added)

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User who did this - Harvey Mittens (Harvey)

Attached to Project - awesome
Summary - FreeDesktop Start Menu Integration
Task Type - Feature Request
Category - Core
Status - Unconfirmed
Assigned To -
Operating System - Linux
Severity - Low
Priority - Normal
Reported Version - git/master
Due in Version - Undecided
Due Date - Undecided
Details - Hello,

Here is an implementation of Freedesktop start menu generation based soley on menubar scripts that are arlready included in awesome.

Its much much faster than the existing awesome-freedesktop (https://github.com/terceiro/awesome-freedesktop) Implementation and could be easily integrated into the awesome libraries.

Please take a look at it and consider it for merger into your code.

I know that some people use the old code above for this while others do not use XDG menus at all.. but atleast if the script was around it would be a nice option for new users. Its super small and simple.. think it over.

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FS#1300 - FreeDesktop Start Menu Integration
User who did this - Emmanuel Lepage Vallee (Elv13)

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Too bad so many people re-implement this. At some point we should really, really use one in the default rc.lua

Here is my:

Load a directory full of .desktop asynchronously then call a callback:
https://github.com/Elv13/awesome-configs/blob/master/utils/fd_async.lua#L473

Use GTK+ api to locate icons instead of pure Lua and bash commands:
https://github.com/Elv13/awesome-configs/blob/master/utils/fd_async.lua#L410

Parse INI file content:
https://github.com/Elv13/awesome-configs/blob/master/utils/fd_async.lua#L460

While not **faster** than a pure bash+lua code, this is fully asynchronous and is cached, so Awesome doesn't freeze when the menu load.

(the menu, require radical https://github.com/Elv13/awesome-configs/blob/master/customMenu/appmenu.lua )
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