[openbox] menu.xml - I thought It Only Had One Format/Standard?

[Dana Jansens]

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Menus

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Das <dasfox at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been using Openbox many years in Slackware compiling my own and in
> all these years I have always thought that the menu.xml that came with the
> source is the only method...
>
> After I've compiled from the source in  /etc/xdg/openbox/ I'll find the
> menu.xml I'll use that follows this format;
>
> <menu id="apps-accessories-menu" label="Accessories">
>   <item label="XCalculator">
>     <action name="Execute">
>       <command>xcalc</command>
>       <startupnotify>
>         <enabled>yes</enabled>
>       </startupnotify>
>     </action>
>   </item>
>
>  <menu id="apps-accessories-menu"/>
>

menu-id lets you define the menu in one place and insert as a submenu
somewhere else. You can also just define the menu in place.


>
> Then I opened up the source and noticed it had a different line I've never
> used before(wmclass)
>
>
> <menu id="apps-net-menu" label="Internet">
>   <item label="Firefox">
>     <action name="Execute">
>       <command>firefox</command>
>       <startupnotify>
>         <enabled>yes</enabled>
> ---------->   <wmclass>Firefox</wmclass>
>       </startupnotify>
>     </action>
>   </item>
>

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Actions#Execute

wmclass is optional value to control startup notification.


> Then, this past week I was playing around with livarp distro in Virtualbox
> to see what they are doing with Openbpx and to my surprise I found another
> format for the menu.xml; now this 'execute' and no 'menu id' anywhere in
> this menu.xml either...
>
>
> <item label="web browser">
>                         <action name="Execute">
> ---------------->                  <execute>firefox</execute>
>                         <startupnotify>
>                           <enabled>yes</enabled>
>                         </startupnotify>
>                         </action>
>                 </item>
>
>
> So I'm a bit confused, I thought Openbox was following some type of
> standard for the menu, not where you can do things in several different
> formats, all the years I've been using it this way, I've never been able to
> get the separator lines to appear with the menu.xml that ships with the
> source, so why ship something with the source if it's not going to work?
>
> I know there is obmenu you can use, but if it's creating the menu.xml in a
> different and a preferred format that users should follow then why isn't
> this format being included as an example in the source for the end-user to
> follow as well?
>
> YES I know this could all just be about FLEXIBILITY, picking and choosing
> the menthod you like,  but I think for new users to Openbox who might just
> follow the menu.xml in the source then it shoild be an example like the
> obmenu examples, or whatever example we should be following...
>
> To say the least, I can't belive all these years I've used Openbox with
> the menu.xml from the source and I've never had my menus display the
> seperator lines till  now with the livarop distro and the format they
> used...
>
> Now I'm scratching my head after all these years wondering what is the
> format to use and follow?
>
> Look I'm a Slacker I like control and flexibility but this is confusing...
>
> THANKS
>
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