IceMe

A graphical menu editor for IceWM written in Python and GTK.

Features
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Screenshots
Requirements
Todos
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Notes
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Features

Tree editing with Drag'n'Drop and Cut'n'Paste
Shortcut editor
Icon selection dialog
Tries to mimic IceWM's idea of getting icon resources as closely as possible
Edit the "menu", "programs", "toolbar" and "keys" files
You can either edit the local menu in your home or the global menu (usually in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icewm; IceMe searches for it!)
GPL

News

2/19/2003: Version 1.1.1
The "Oops" release -- found a bug that didn't let xpm's display properly (sometimes, anyway). Grab 1.1.1 now!

2/18/2003: Version 1.1
Okay, I got off my lazy butt and finally did another release. New in this version :

better icon handling -- can do more than just xpm files!
some icon settings to tweak in constants.py, if you want
uses python's distutils to install
some minor file-handling thingst

With this release, I'm no longer supporting RPMs -- Distutils is a better way, more Pythonic, and more scalable. However, the machinery is in place to make an RPM via Distutils -- if someone wants to support it, let me know and I'll link to it. Also with this release, only Python 2.1 and above are supported (that shouldn't be a big deal).

10/31/2002: Another RPM
Someone said the RPM in the release section was missing the all-important 'constants.py' file. I made another RPM of the code as it stands now -- grab it, and tell me what you think.
When I get some time in the next week or so, I'll finish up a few odds and ends in the code, and release it as IceMe 1.1!!

09/26/2002: Under new management, new RPM available
Hello, I'm Mike Hostetler, the new lead developer for IceMe.
Dirk hadn't made any changes for about two years, but I had a few enhancement ideas, and offered to take the project over.
I had a small list of things I would like to do, and added Dirk's list to that. See the Todos section for info. And, if you have things you want to add, add them to the feature tracker.

06/03/2000: Version 1.0.0 is available.
Well, for now IceMe has reached its (my) design goals, and I think it is pretty usable, too. So I thought, this would justify for an 1.0. Here is what's new:

icon selection dialog now displays "None" as empty icon
"Programs", "Toolbar" and "Clipboard" special menus are now displayed in italics (instead of grey) to make clear, that you can insert s.th. there.
bugfix: could insert on grey seperators
bugfix: "Preview" now displays text buttons if icon is missing

05/26/2000: RPMs for IceMe and PyGTK 0.6.6 are available.
This should prevent the installation troubles some people reported. See the download section.
05/25/2000: Version 0.4.0 is available.

new shortcut editor, where you can edit the contents of the "keys" file
new function to invoke IcePref, if it is available
fixed blocking command invocation in preview menu
fixed bug that prevented "insert submenu" via toolbar button
fixed bug when loading faulty icons in IconSelectionDialog
fixed bug that creates invalid menu files if a command contains quotes

05/21/2000: Version 0.3.0 is available.

new preview function: view the menu as IceWM would display it.
added file chooser for command field
Important! Fixed the "NameError: GdkColor" error, that prevented the startup on some systems.
fixed bug in cut/paste on inactive menu items

05/20/2000: Version 0.2 is available.

fixed icon load problem, when ice_me.py is not in the current dir
fixed invalid icon detection

Screenshots


smain screen	icon selection dialog	preview menu

shortcut editor

Requirements

IceWM 0.94 or higher
Python 2.1 or higher
GTK+ 1.2.6 or higher
PyGTK 0.6.6 or higher!

Runs on any Unix (hopefully!)

Todo List

check for changes to any of the three menus and ask on quit without save
use statusbar more
test/execute command, check for non-existing commands (don't we do this already??)
use Distutils for package management
create Preferences editor
create packages for SuSE, RedHat, Debian, and Gentoo

Download

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Notes

Documentation is not yet done, and maybe never will, sorry. But I think the program should be pretty self explaining.
Please send suggestions, bug reports and comments to Mike Hostetler.