parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option("-s", "--srcdir", dest="srcdir",
default="/usr/share/app-install/desktop/",
help="directory for the menu-data")
parser.add_option("-d", "--destdir", dest="destdir",
default="output",
help="dir for the output")
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
# get a cache
cache = apt.Cache()
# read menu
menu = CoreApplicationMenu(options.srcdir)
root = xdg.Menu.parse(os.path.join(options.srcdir, "applications.menu"))
menu._populateFromEntry(root)
# output per section
index_file = open(os.path.join(options.destdir,"sections.txt"),"w")
sections = menu.pickle.keys()
sections.sort()
for section in sections:
name = unescape(section.name)
index_file.write("%s\n" % name)
section_file = open(os.path.join(options.destdir,name+".txt"),"w")
for app in menu.pickle[section]:
if not cache.has_key(app.pkgname):
print "ERROR: can't find '%s' in apt cache" % app.pkgname
continue
section_file.write("%s (%s) %s %s\n\n" % (
app.name.encode('utf-8'),
