--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Menu generation module for menubar -- -- @author Antonio Terceiro -- @copyright 2009, 2011-2012 Antonio Terceiro, Alexander Yakushev -- @release @AWESOME_VERSION@ -- @module menubar.menu_gen --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Grab environment local utils = require("menubar.utils") local icon_theme = require("menubar.icon_theme") local pairs = pairs local ipairs = ipairs local string = string local table = table local menu_gen = {} -- Options section local data_dir = os.getenv("XDG_DATA_HOME") if not data_dir then data_dir = os.getenv("HOME") .. '/.local/share/' end --- Specifies all directories where menubar should look for .desktop -- files. The search is recursive. menu_gen.all_menu_dirs = { data_dir .. 'applications/', '/usr/share/applications/', '/usr/local/share/applications/' } --- Specify the mapping of .desktop Categories section to the -- categories in the menubar. If "use" flag is set to false then any of -- the applications that fall only to this category will not be shown. menu_gen.all_categories = { multimedia = { app_type = "AudioVideo", name = "Multimedia", icon_name = "applications-multimedia", use = true }, development = { app_type = "Development", name = "Development", icon_name = "applications-development", use = true }, education = { app_type = "Education", name = "Education", icon_name = "applications-science", use = true }, games = { app_type = "Game", name = "Games", icon_name = "applications-games", use = true }, graphics = { app_type = "Graphics", name = "Graphics", icon_name = "applications-graphics", use = true }, office = { app_type = "Office", name = "Office", icon_name = "applications-office", use = true }, internet = { app_type = "Network", name = "Internet", icon_name = "applications-internet", use = true }, settings = { app_type = "Settings", name = "Settings", icon_name = "applications-utilities", use = true }, tools = { app_type = "System", name = "System Tools", icon_name = "applications-system", use = true }, utility = { app_type = "Utility", name = "Accessories", icon_name = "applications-accessories", use = true } } --- Find icons for category entries. function menu_gen.lookup_category_icons() for _, v in pairs(menu_gen.all_categories) do v.icon = icon_theme():find_icon_path(v.icon_name) end end --- Get category key name and whether it is used by its app_type. -- @param app_type Application category as written in .desktop file. -- @return category key name in all_categories, whether the category is used local function get_category_name_and_usage_by_type(app_type) for k, v in pairs(menu_gen.all_categories) do if app_type == v.app_type then return k, v.use end end end --- Remove CR\LF newline from the end of the string. -- @param s string to trim local function trim(s) if not s then return end if string.byte(s, #s) == 13 then return string.sub(s, 1, #s - 1) end return s end --- Generate an array of all visible menu entries. -- @treturn table All menu entries. function menu_gen.generate() -- Update icons for category entries menu_gen.lookup_category_icons() local result = {} local unique_entries = {} for _, dir in ipairs(menu_gen.all_menu_dirs) do for _, entry in ipairs(utils.parse_dir(dir)) do -- Check whether to include program in the menu if entry.show and entry.Name and entry.cmdline then local unique_key = entry.Name .. '\0' .. entry.cmdline if not unique_entries[unique_key] then local target_category = nil -- Check if the program falls into at least one of the -- usable categories. Set target_category to be the id -- of the first category it finds. if entry.categories then for _, category in pairs(entry.categories) do local cat_key, cat_use = get_category_name_and_usage_by_type(category) if cat_key and cat_use then target_category = cat_key break end end end if target_category then local name = trim(entry.Name) or "" local cmdline = trim(entry.cmdline) or "" local icon = entry.icon_path or nil table.insert(result, { name = name, cmdline = cmdline, icon = icon, category = target_category }) unique_entries[unique_key] = true end end end end end return result end return menu_gen -- vim: filetype=lua:expandtab:shiftwidth=4:tabstop=8:softtabstop=4:textwidth=80