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[Request]: The ability to integrate applications from a chroot into the host menu

Open zeitue opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Tell us the problem or your need

Currently you can install GUI applications in a chroot, but they don't integrate with the host system. You have to launch them from the command line.

Describe the solution you'd like

The ability to integrate applications from a chroot into the host distro's menu system.

  • Present a list of applications from each chroot and allow the user to choose which ones they want to show up in their menu
  • Allow a select all applications from a chroot and group them in a subdirectory in GNOME shell or a submenu in KDE Plasma

Other solutions?

No response

Additional context and references

  • In order to do this we could parse the XDG application directories from inside the chroot
  • Then use GTK's icon look up system to find the icons.
  • We would then copy the icon to the host
  • Finally create a patched desktop file on the host side.

zeitue avatar Oct 17 '22 06:10 zeitue

I'm going to include an application menu on the atom page and allow you to export them individually

mirkobrombin avatar Oct 17 '22 07:10 mirkobrombin