Re: [Oroborus-user] Deskmenu application

[Chris Wareham]

Stefan Pfetzing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Chris Wareham <address@hidden> [030305 14:25]:
>
> > I've just installed the deskmenu application as a replacement for xsm.
> > It's a neat little bit of code, but I had to change the call to xmalloc
> > (and the dependency on xmalloc.o) to get it to compile on NetBSD.
> > There's a #include "error.h" line in xmalloc.c, but no such header in
> > the source tarball. There does appear to be some Linux specific system
> > header with that name - I guess it's equivalent on NetBSD is err.h.
>
> Hm, I'll include a configure check for that soon, later today perhaps.

On RedHat Linux 8.0 at least, glibc provides functions compatible with
BSD err() and errx(). The stuff in /usr/include/error.h doesn't have a
manual entry, but appears to do the same thing. So perhaps a "one size
fits all" solution is to user err() instead of error().

> > The xmalloc stuff does seem to be overkill, and could probably be
> > replaced with glib stuff. If there's no objection, then I don't mind
> > glib'ifying deskmenu and making sure it compiles on NetBSD and Linux.
>
> Well I'll remove xmalloc.c soon, but for Oroborus itself its somehow
> neccessary...

It just seemed to be overkill for deskmenu, but that's only my humble
opinion! I haven't looked at the code for Oroborus, but I will do, as
it dumps core on one of my machines (a Sparc 5). I'm guessing there's
an endianness issue, but I've got to make a debuggable build first.

> > Anyway, the main reason for my message is to see whether anyone is
> > writing an add-on to configure the menus. If not then I'll knock
> > together something over the next couple of days and hook it into the
> > current version of deskmenu.
>
> Well currently there is no "frontend" for generating menus, except for
> "update-menu" which is debian specific.

I'll put together a first stab at an editing screen then. I'll either
make it standalone and send a signal to deskmenu to reload the menus,
or make it a part of deskmenu itself.

By the way, I've autoconf'ed my theme changing tool, although this is
the first time I've used autoconf, automake, etc. I've just got to
finish reading up on how to generate a config.h with a #define for the
kvm stuff ...

Chris
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