Added desktop detection support

README.md

@@ -18,12 +18,14 @@ The script expects to be run **within** the WSL execution environment with:
 * An **X11 Server** running on your **windows host** (e.g. X410, Xming etc). This server
   must be *reachable* from your WSL env (test with something like `wsl.exe -- source ~/.bashrc ; xterm"`).
   If this fails, check your `DISPLAY` variable (more details in [troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)).
-* A desktop environment which has a freedesktop menu installed (e.g. gnome / xfce).
+* A freedesktop menu installed (e.g. gnome-menus or a full desktop environment).
 
 And optionally (but recommended):
 
-* An installation of cairosvg if works on your distro (`pip install cairosvg`)
-* Imagemagick installed (`sudo apt install imagemagick` / `dnf install imagemagick` etc)
+* An installation of cairosvg if works on your distro (`pip install cairosvg`). This will allow you to convert `.svg`
+  based icons.
+* Imagemagick installed (`sudo apt install imagemagick` / `dnf install imagemagick` etc). This will allow you to have
+  an additional opportunity to convert appropriate icon files if other methods fail.
 
 ## Installing and Running
 

setup.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="wsl-windows-toolbar",
-    version="0.6.0",
+    version="0.6.1",
     author="Frank Quinn",
     author_email="[email protected]",
     description="Adds linux GUI application menu to a windows toolbar",

wsl_windows_toolbar.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import shutil
 import subprocess
 import sys
+import glob
 import magic
 from platform import uname
 import click
@@ -60,6 +61,26 @@
 DEFAULT_METADATA_DIRECTORY = os.path.join(
     WSL_USERPROFILE, ".config", "wsl-windows-toolbar-launcher/metadata")
 
+# Default order of preference for menu selection
+MENU_PREFERENCES = ["gnome", "xfce", "kf5"]
+DEFAULT_MENU_LOCATION = "/etc/xdg/menus"
+MENUS_AVAILABLE = glob.glob("%s/*-applications.menu" % DEFAULT_MENU_LOCATION)
+DEFAULT_MENU_FILE = None
+
+# Prefer these as defaults if available
+for menu_type in MENU_PREFERENCES:
+    menu_file_name = "/etc/xdg/menus/%s-applications.menu" % menu_type
+    if menu_file_name in MENUS_AVAILABLE:
+        DEFAULT_MENU_FILE = menu_file_name
+        break
+
+# Otherwise prefer the first one available
+if DEFAULT_MENU_FILE is None and len(MENUS_AVAILABLE) > 0:
+    DEFAULT_MENU_FILE = MENUS_AVAILABLE[0]
+
+DEFAULT_METADATA_DIRECTORY = os.path.join(
+    WSL_USERPROFILE, ".config", "wsl-windows-toolbar-launcher/metadata")
+
 FREEDESKTOP_FIELD_CODES = [
     "%f",
     "%F",
@@ -129,7 +150,7 @@
 @click.option("--menu-file",
               "-f",
               type=click.File('r'),
-              default="/etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu",
+              default=DEFAULT_MENU_FILE,
               show_default=True,
               help="The *.menu menu file to parse")
 @click.option("--wsl-executable",
@@ -218,7 +239,7 @@ def cli(install_directory,
     logger.info("distribution = %s", distribution)
     logger.info("user = %s", user)
     logger.info("confirm_yes = %s", confirm_yes)
-    logger.info("menu_file = %s", menu_file.name)
+    logger.info("menu_file = %s", menu_file.name if menu_file else None)
     logger.info("wsl_executable = %s", wsl_executable)
     logger.info("target_name = %s", target_name)
     logger.info("preferred_theme = %s", preferred_theme)
@@ -240,6 +261,13 @@ def cli(install_directory,
     logger.info("install_directory = %s", install_directory)
     logger.info("metadata_directory = %s", metadata_directory)
 
+    if not menu_file:
+        logger.error(
+            "Could not find an appropriate .menu file in %s - perhaps yum/apt install gnome-menus or another desktop?",
+            DEFAULT_MENU_LOCATION
+        )
+        sys.exit(os.EX_OSFILE)
+
     if not confirm_yes:
         logger.info("For full list of options available, call script again with --help")
         logger.info("This script will write to the above locations if it can, but giving final chance to chicken out.")