Maybe a dynamic Openbox menu needed?

nobody0 · 2015-11-29 08:54:36

In the earlier days, the only way to add a menu item was manually. Then came obmenu, the OpenBox GUI menu editor to make it easy for normal users. In the meantime, few new dynamic menus came up, Openbox-Menu (I needed somehow some comfort to be able to launch installed programs, categorized...) http://fabrice.thiroux.free.fr/openbox-menu_en.html, Obmenu-generator https://github.com/trizen/obmenu-generator, http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic. … 03#p423803 and Obamenu http://rmoe.anukis.de/obamenu.html. Maybe, we should choose one of them as the Menu for BunsenLabs.

balloon · 2015-11-29 09:34:56

Have you tried this method? :

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=19

It will be settled with this cord instead if you add it to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml .

<menu id="/Debian" />

nobody0 · 2015-11-29 10:41:36

@ balloon,
Maybe, you'd like to have a look, https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 1237#p1237 or here, http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic. … 80#p440380

Sector11 · 2015-11-29 12:07:37

Always a good link: OpenBox Pipemenus this is directly to the "Application Menus".

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-11-29 12:39:24

I believe this has been discussed *many* times before ostrolek

The general feeling of the community is that self-generating menus are not wanted but can be implemented very easily if the user desires.

Why not provide a How To for all the methods you have discovered instead?

nobody0 · 2015-11-29 13:18:13

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

I believe this has been discussed *many* times before ostrolek
The general feeling of the community is that self-generating menus are not wanted but can be implemented very easily if the user desires.
Why not provide a How To for all the methods you have discovered instead?

In the OP, links to all 3 menu generators are given. They are actually how-tos. Everything is clearly explained. One link on Obmenu-Generator is to #! forums. I am using Obamenu without icons. It has no dependencies.

Knowing how "scientific socialism" worked, I am not a fan of "general feelings." Anyway, Budgie, Cinnamon, Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Slingshot, Unity, XFCE etc have self-generating menus, so why not Openbox? All 3 dynamic menus for Openbox was created after Obmenu, the GUI menu editor, which means development.

Also, I saw a question, https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 9141#p9141 and that's why my suggestion.

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Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-11-29 14:39:05

ostrolek wrote:

In the OP, links to all 3 menu generators are given. They are actually how-tos. Everything is clearly explained.

Then what's the problem, exactly?

The developers have chosen openbox/tint2 as the defaualt working environment for BunsenLabs. A non-self-generating menu has also been chosen, as has GRUB, systemd, NetworkManager, Thunar, Iceweasel, ad nauseum

Users are, of course, free to use alternatives.

As I mentioned, this has been discussed before and most forum members who volunteered an opinion found self-generating menus to be irritating and unwanted.

nobody0 · 2015-11-29 15:41:43

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

ostrolek wrote:
In the OP, links to all 3 menu generators are given. They are actually how-tos. Everything is clearly explained.
Then what's the problem, exactly?

I have no problem at all. You asked for the how-tos.

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

As I mentioned, this has been discussed before and most forum members who volunteered an opinion found self-generating menus to be irritating and unwanted.

Mine: Not at all irritating, but very comforting, make life easy. Its just a suggestion, no one is obliged to take it.

Sector11 · 2015-11-29 16:42:06

For as much as OpenBox can use pipemenus (see my link above as well as others here) to get a 'dynamic menu' it's (IMHO) like trying yo put a Ford engine in a Chevy. Needs tweaking.

If one wants a *box system with dynamic menu entries: FluxBox.

It's just as awesome as OpenBox and just as configurable.

nobody0 · 2015-11-29 17:10:53

Sector11 wrote:

For as much as OpenBox can use pipemenus (see my link above as well as others here) to get a 'dynamic menu' it's (IMHO) like trying yo put a Ford engine in a Chevy. Needs tweaking.
If one wants a *box system with dynamic menu entries: FluxBox.
It's just as awesome as OpenBox and just as configurable.

Would you take few minutes to read http://rmoe.anukis.de/obamenu.html, and the obamenu python script.
Only one line is added to the Openbox pipemenu.

<menu id="desktop-app-menu" label="Applications" execute="~/.config/openbox/obamenu" />

No one is going feel bad by making their life easier.

Sector11 · 2015-11-29 17:32:28

^ Excuse me ... what makes you think I didn't read it?

I did ... and I have tested all those menus you mentioned ... and still have one installed buried deep within my OB setup:

I test things ... I have residue of those tests all over the place!

~/.config/openbox/scripts/obamenu/obamenu

nobody0 · 2015-11-29 17:56:07

^ Same here. I test things too.
This is my additional menu;
a very old menu coming from Natty days, adapted so Apt won't break it. It is much pleasing and easy to work with, I am not proposing it here.

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Panda · 2015-11-29 18:23:28

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

The general feeling of the community is that self-generating menus are not wanted but can be implemented very easily if the user desires.

This^

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

As I mentioned, this has been discussed before and most forum members who volunteered an opinion found self-generating menus to be irritating and unwanted.

Again this^

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Users are, of course, free to use alternatives.

And because of this^..

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Why not provide a How To for all the methods you have discovered instead?

.. Why not this^

nobody0 · 2015-11-29 18:31:19

^ Go to the #1 and to the links.

Panda · 2015-11-29 19:53:26

@Ostrolek,

Yes sir, I saw that at the top of the page and the reason I read it first

I think you've got some great ideas and your desire to make things easier is (particularly for new users) commendable. I'd have to agree with others here regarding leaving the menu as is in the release. Having said that, nothing prevents a user from modifying their system to suit a particular taste or need, I also distinctly remember this being hashed out thoroughly sometime ago.

I think one of the greatest attributes of Openbox and that of #! , then BunsenLabs or even Linux in general, is it can be a blank canvass of sorts or, starting point to allow our own personality a chance to shine through and thus giving us the freedom to actually make a choice. Which is where I believe people like you make such a huge contribution. What very little Linux knowledge I do possess, I gained from 'How Tos' on the old #! forum and now here.. Written by people like you. Hell, if you searched long enough, you'd probably find a 'How to' on milking the family cat( Update your kernel first) Hahaha

Although and like others here who feel the menu is perfect the way it is, I hope you don't become discouraged, keep those good ideas coming and like HoaS suggested, start that 'How To' thread.

nobody0 · 2015-11-29 20:45:41

^ Openbox menu has not changed, but the content had changed, depending what you want to add to it. A guy asked a question, https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 9141#p9141, but never came back, which prompted me to make this suggestion. Once, someone asked a question about Obamenu, https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 2250#p2250 and there is a post on Obmenu-generator, https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 7487#p7487. In the #1, the original authors are explaining how to use their creations.

(Here is a how-to on a different subject, if you want to try, https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 166#p9166)

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johnraff · 2015-11-30 03:15:05

Obamenu indeed looks like an attractive option for people who'd like a dynamically generated apps menu. It runs no daemons, builds no cache files, just runs when called and generates a pipemenu on the fly, quite fast. If you don't click the submenu it consumes no resources, and it's a small 7KB python script.

To be honest, I don't really see why anybody should be annoyed if it was added to the BL openbox menu...

Sector11 · 2015-11-30 03:24:05

Please don't. Make it available, but please don't install it by default!

johnraff · 2015-11-30 04:32:35

@Sector11 why would you find it more annoying than the Graphics pipemenu, for example? Or any of the other submenus?

pvsage · 2015-11-30 05:59:49

^ Frankly, the pipemenus are the one thing I hate about CrunchBang/BunsenLabs. I understand they're of use to some people, but they're an eyesore to me and a good excuse to learn the keyboard shortcuts and avoid using the right-click menu.

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