Hi all...
As I understand, right now there are various "standards" on how to write menus for Linux, that are incompatible. That would mean that writing a "grand unified ;-)" start menu client as I discussed before is currently impossible.
What could be made already though, is a Wine deamon that talks to shell32.dll internally and input/outputs with pipes to some linux client, in order to serve the start menu items. This would link the Windows start menu to Linux, in a tidy way. So the idea is that the Windows program's output could be piped to some Linux client that actually creates the menu dynamically, so it stays in continuous synchronization with your Start menu directory.
The Linux client cannot be made unified yet, but I suppose I could at least write a client for KDE. It wouldn't be to messy to add other clients later for other desktop enviroments, since the deamon does not have to change in order to do so. That is, only the neccesairy thingies change.
From looking at the help files I suppose KPanelAppMenu could do the trick.
Would such a system be appreciated by the you people? Or do you think I should wait untill a better standarization is available? Or do you think creating a Windows deamon and a Linux client is too much overkill for such a feature?
Also, if this feature would be handy, does anyone have expirience with the KPanelAppMenu? I can't get the thingy to work yet...
Grtz,
Robert