Hello!
PCMan has written on Thursday, 22 November, at 17:57:
>So here's a list of what I think LXDE is lacking.
>As LXDE is not aimed to be a full all-in-one suite, I think we need to
>focus on finishing the most vital core parts of a DE.
[.......]
>4. A application menu editor.
>I don't think creating an xdg-compliant menu editor is right. The xdg menu
>is bad for editing. Although it has menu editing support, it's very basic
>and cumbersome.
>That's why it's so difficult to create a nice menu editor.
>An reasonable alternative, IMO, is to have our own menu definition file,
>just like all of the old window managers does. Of course, this should come
>with a GUI editor not requiring the user to write that menu file with a
>text editor.
>Moreover, the user should be able to choose the apps he likes from existing
>applications (defined in xdg application menu) and add them to the menu.
>This is simple and should always works.
>Xdg menu only serves as a repository of all installed applications. The
>items in the menu presented to the user can be different from that.
The libfm in 1.2 will support menu editing. In form of drag&drop or
copy/paste, of course. It will allow creating of new items and hiding any
existing, of course. And sure, with full-featured items edition. It will
be done in any case because I will fix the parts which are marked now as
FIXME (missing functionality) so menu edition will be implemented as kind
of side-effect. %)
The most important part of that side-effect implementation is that it
will be compatible with every other DE, i.e. it will be XDG-compliant.
Your "our own menu definition file" approach will work only in LXDE and
only with applications that are especially written to support it, and it
will hardly accept changes done in other menu editing tools. Way too much
limited solution which I would like to avoid very much.
May be when libfm will support full-featured menu editing users will
not need another tool. And, BTW, I already told you the most important
feature lxpanel lacks is drag&drop - if it start to support it, that may
do some basic menu editing too (dragging some items between categories)
if we decide it should be possible.
Andriy.
P.S. Regarding other letter: please, don't leave gtk2 stuff. I know, the
gtk3 is in development while gtk2 isn't but gtk3 has many drawbacks so I
still prefer to have main parts in gtk2, it's faster and more stable, and
also I don't like all those gtk3 themes. And for the best is to support
both gtk2 and gtk3 in single project instead of having two different ones
for gtk2 and gtk3.
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