menjar

menjar is a script to pull entries from *.desktop files for bemenu or other dynamic dmenu-like apps. User directories can be specified on the command line. menjar searches for and displays internationalized entries in the .desktop files, a la Name[pt_BR]=.

menjar checks the time stamp of the cache file against the directories each time it runs, updating only as required. Options -d and -t are only used when rebuilding the cache file, but since it rebuilds that file automatically, you should specify your preferred options on each invocation.

Applications with Terminal=true entries are prefixed with $term -e  in the cache file. Although menjar has an internal list of about eight common terminal emulators, you probably want to specify your preferred TE in the command.

Speed

Typical runtimes (with everything in disk cache) are:

$ time menjar -m cat
xfce4-about

real	0m0.021s
user	0m0.019s
sys	0m0.005s

$ time menjar -t xfce4-terminal -m cat -f
xfce4-about

real	0m0.044s
user	0m0.048s
sys	0m0.013s