KDE4 advice

[John L Fjellstad]

"Steve Lamb" <grey at dmiyu.org> writes:

>     The only grouse I have, as the OP pointed out, is that the menus of each
> are cluttered with portions of the other.  I don't much mind having
> Amarok in my Gnome/XFCE menus but having 3 different ways to configure
> the system in each is a tad confusing.  ;)

Add OnlyShowIn=KDE in all kde .desktop files (they're in
/usr/share/applications/kde).  Then kde applications will only show in
KDE.
You can do the same for Gnome (OnlyShowIn=GNOME). The .desktop files are
in /usr/share/applications (with all non-gnome apps).
xfce probably has something similar.

The following scripts will make KDE applications show in only KDE and
Gnome applications only show in Gnome:

############## KDE
#!/bin/bash

pushd /usr/share/applications/kde
for file in *.desktop; do
        grep -q OnlyShowIn=KDE $file
        if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
                sudo su -c "echo 'OnlyShowIn=KDE' >> $file"
        fi
done
popd

##############
############## Gnome
#!/bin/bash

pushd /usr/share/applications
for file in *.desktop; do
        echo $file | grep -q wireshark
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
                continue
        fi
        echo $file | grep -q ^gnome
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
                grep -q OnlyShowIn=GNOME $file
                if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
                        sudo su -c "echo 'OnlyShowIn=GNOME' >> $file"
                fi
        fi
        grep Categories $file | grep -q GNOME
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
                grep -q OnlyShowIn=GNOME $file
                if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
                        sudo su -c "echo 'OnlyShowIn=GNOME' >> $file"
                fi
        fi
        grep -q X-GNOME-Bugzilla $file
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
                grep -q OnlyShowIn=GNOME $file
                if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
                        sudo su -c "echo 'OnlyShowIn=GNOME' >> $file"
                fi
        fi
done
popd
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John L. Fjellstad
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