The Sabily-wmenu for UbuntuMe

July 14th, 2009 | Sohaib Afifi | development, Linux, Windows

This week i have subscribed to The Sabily project , a Linux distribution designed by and for Muslims. Like our distribution (EsiTux) it is based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution , so i found that i can work on both projects at the same time.

I am helping in the development of the next version (gaza 9.10), and currently i am taking two tasks: the windows cd menu (Sabily-wmenu) and the Windows installer(Sabily-wininstaller).

I have finished the first task based on the ubuntu menu (umenu) source code .I have modified the strategies of this application to load external configurations and skins so any one can customize this tool without recompiling the source.

you can found the source code on this bazar branch :

https://code.launchpad.net/~sohaibafifi/esitux/Sabily-wmenu

using this command:

bzr branch https://code.launchpad.net/~sohaibafifi/esitux/Sabily-wmenu

or from the google code svn server using:

svn checkout http://esitux-wmenu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ esitux-wmenu-read-only

The program is developed using NSIS (A scriptable win32 installer/uninstaller system. from Nullsoft) to compile the tool just type these commands:

#make prerequisites
#make all
#make debug

Currently I am working on Sabily-wininstaller and I finished almost 80% of the source