Obtap - An openbox menu generator like none before. (BETA)

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(When I say none before I mean none that I could find. If I could find one, I wouldn't have to make this then. Anyway..)
Hey guys, I'm here to present my project 'obtap'. It's inspired by obmenugen, a great menu generator written in D which I've used before obtap. The reason I don't use it anymore is because it wasn't as customizable as I'd of liked it to be and that's why I've made obtap.
I've developed a small (under <150KiB, only using the C++ standard library which means you don't have to install any dependencies) Openbox menu generator that's grown to do many things:
obtap can generate pipe menus, static menus, a dynamically updating menu (basically a menu with it's contents a pipe menu).
obtap can easily add separators for menu layout and edit entries in such ways of renaming/merging categories, setting entry categories, renaming entries and deleting entries.
obtap has command line options to specify menu type (pipe, static, dynamic), the configuration file and the output.
The selling point, I'd say at least, is that obtap can (but doesn't have to) load desktop files from directories as entries, which you can then process with the above methods.
Here's my menu:
That's created using this configuration file:
# Jookia's obtap configuration file.
output(~/.config/openbox/menu.xml)
type(openboxDynamic)
locations(/usr/share/applications,/usr/share/applications/kde4)
extensions(desktop)
obeyOnlyShowIn(GNOME,KDE,XFCE)
ignoreCategories(GTK,GNOME,Qt)
alphabetize(true)
customEntry(Logout;shutdown-dialog.py)
customEntry(Reconfigure Openbox;openbox --reconfigure;Utilities)
customEntry(Nitrogen;nitrogen;Settings)
replaceCategoryName(AudioVideo;Multimedia)
replaceCategoryName(Game;Games)
replaceCategoryName(Graphics;Multimedia)
replaceCategoryName(Utility;Utilities)
replaceCategoryName(System;Utilities)
replaceEntryName(GNU Image Manipulation Program;GIMP)
deleteEntry(Root Terminal)
deleteEntry(Open Folder with Thunar)
menuEntry(separator;Applications)
menuEntry(categories)
menuEntry(separator)
menuEntry(entry;Logout)
Here's how to get it from the GitHub page.
git clone git://github.com/Jookia/obtap.git
cd obtap
make
bin/obtap -c goodies/example.conf
openbox --reconfigure
That'll create a dynamic example menu and update Openbox.
To edit it, edit example.conf or copy it to ~/.config/obtap.conf and run obtap without the '-c goodies/example.conf'.
You can also install it by using the PKGBUILD in the goodies folder.
I don't have much to say. Uh.. Thanks for reading and if you do use it, I'd love to know.
Last edited by Jookia (2010-11-07 22:35:46)

Answer 1

Ok here's for the verbose result, it's pointing to "`/.config/obtap.conf" which is resulting
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<openbox_menu xmlns="http://openbox.org/3.4/menu">
<menu id="root-menu" label="" execute=
"/home/martin/obtap -c /home/martin/.config/obtap.conf -t openboxpipe -o -"
/>
</openbox_menu>
It's have an exactly same results like when you first time invoke obtap before install it to your /usr/bin
Here's the obtap output schema
<openbox_pipe_menu>
<separator label="Applications"/>
<menu id="menu-utilities" label="Utilities">
<item label="Shutter">
<action name="Execute">
<command>shutter</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Bulk Rename">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/lib/ThunarBulkRename</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="UNetbootin">
<action name="Execute">
<command>su -c /usr/sbin/unetbootin</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Cairo Composite Manager">
<action name="Execute">
<command>cairo-compmgr</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="SUSE Studio Imagewriter">
<action name="Execute">
<command>imagewriter</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Avahi Zeroconf Browser">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/avahi-discover</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Htop">
<action name="Execute">
<command>htop</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Terminator">
<action name="Execute">
<command>terminator</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="GSmartControl">
<action name="Execute">
<command>"/usr/bin/gsmartcontrol-root"</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="GParted">
<action name="Execute">
<command>gksu /usr/sbin/gparted</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="gVim">
<action name="Execute">
<command>gvim</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Thunar File Manager">
<action name="Execute">
<command>Thunar</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="CoverGloobus">
<action name="Execute">
<command>covergloobus</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Squeeze">
<action name="Execute">
<command>squeeze</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Disk Utility">
<action name="Execute">
<command>palimpsest</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="menu-settings" label="Settings">
<item label="Notifications">
<action name="Execute">
<command>xfce4-notifyd-config</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Openbox Configuration Manager">
<action name="Execute">
<command>obconf</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="TintWizard">
<action name="Execute">
<command>tintwizard</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="File Manager">
<action name="Execute">
<command>thunar-settings</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Removable Drives and Media">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/lib/xfce4/thunar-volman-settings</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Qt Config ">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/qtconfig</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="CoverGloobus Configuration">
<action name="Execute">
<command>covergloobus-config</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Preferred Applications">
<action name="Execute">
<command>libfm-pref-apps</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Customize Look and Feel">
<action name="Execute">
<command>lxappearance</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="menu-network" label="Network">
<item label="IcedTea Web Start">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/javaws</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Avahi VNC Server Browser">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/bvnc</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Firefox - Safe Mode">
<action name="Execute">
<command>firefox -safe-mode</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Avahi SSH Server Browser">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/bssh</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Firefox">
<action name="Execute">
<command>firefox</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Midori">
<action name="Execute">
<command>midori</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="XChat IRC">
<action name="Execute">
<command>xchat</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Pidgin Internet Messenger">
<action name="Execute">
<command>pidgin</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="menu-development" label="Development">
<item label="Qt Designer">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/designer</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="CMake">
<action name="Execute">
<command>cmake-gui</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Qt Linguist">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/linguist</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="OpenJDK Monitoring &amp; Management Console">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/jconsole</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Geany">
<action name="Execute">
<command>geany</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Qt Assistant">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/assistant</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="OpenJDK Policy Tool">
<action name="Execute">
<command>/usr/bin/policytool</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="menu-multimedia" label="Multimedia">
<item label="Document Viewer">
<action name="Execute">
<command>evince</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="DeaDBeeF">
<action name="Execute">
<command>deadbeef</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="Mirage">
<action name="Execute">
<command>mirage</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="VLC media player">
<action name="Execute">
<command>vlc</command>
</action>
</item>
<item label="GIMP">
<action name="Execute">
<command>gimp-2.6</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<menu id="menu-openbox" label="Openbox">
<item label="Reconfigure Openbox">
<action name="Execute">
<command>openbox --reconfigure</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<separator/>
<menu id="menu-openbox" label="Openbox">
<item label="Reconfigure Openbox">
<action name="Execute">
<command>openbox --reconfigure</command>
</action>
</item>
</menu>
<item label="Logout">
<action name="Execute">
<command>shutdown-dialog.py</command>
</action>
</item>
</openbox_pipe_menu>
I guess the problem is "Htop" is a CLi program and normally when i want to invoke unetbootin / imagewriter, i'm using "gksu <command>" using manual menu.xml configuration.
Hope it's help