ParrotOS compliance

[Locutu5]

Using Awesome WM on a Parrot Linux distribution with awesome-freedesktop installed as per the github instructions. The standard program .desktop files are detected and a menu is generated but the Parrot specific .desktop items and catagories are not detected/included in the generated menu. What could be done to have those included?

[lcpz]

This module should only detect and include Freedesktop-compliant files.

But if you can provide examples of these Parrot-specific files, I will add them to the parser.

[Locutu5]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

In the folder "/usr/share/desktop-directories/" parrot put a heap of desktop directory menu files. The base one is Parrot.directory and it contains

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Pentesting
Type=Directory
Icon=/usr/share/icons/parrot-menu.png

This then has subdirectory files such as "04-01-metasploit-framework.directory" which contains

[Desktop Entry]
Name=* Metasploit Framework
Type=Directory
Icon=parrot-metasploit.png

These are referenced by desktop entries in "/usr/share/parrot-menu/applications/"
An example file is "metasploit framework" which contains

[Desktop Entry]
Name=metasploit framework
Comment=Metasploit framework (CLI)
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=menuexec msfconsole-start
Icon=parrot-metasploit.png
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Categories=04-01-metasploit-framework;
X-Parrot-Package=metasploit-framework

Unfortunately I am no longer using Awesome any more but if it helps, jgmenu can find those desktop entry files but even it doesn't recreate the categories.