clone 558308 -1 reopen -1 reassign -1 menu-xdg retitle -1 provides a menu-file in /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/ thanks
Filing as a bug against menu-xdg, just to not forget about it. On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:10, Lionel Le Folgoc <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Sandro Tosi <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks for answering! >> >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 22:24, Lionel Le Folgoc <[email protected]> wrote: >>> In Xfce 4.8, there's a new library called garcon that is responsible for >>> building the menu. It should be (fully) xdg compliant, and it supports menu >>> merging. However, there's no debian menu ready to be merged (shipped in >>> /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged), so you will probably need to build one >>> yourself. >> >> How am I gonna do it? will XFCE ship (or provide somewere (wiki?)) a >> doc about create a "custom" debian menu? shouldn't it be available by >> default on a... debian system? :) >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) >> My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ >> Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi >> > > Well, garcon complies with the xdg menu spec, so following > <http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html> is > possible, or using any menu editor. > > The easiest solution would be for the menu-xdg package to provide, in > addition of its current /etc/xdg/menus/debian-menu.menu, a menu file in > /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/, which would create a Debian > submenu/category. This would allow people who only want the debian menu > to choose debian-menu.menu as their main menu file, and people who want > a desktop environment menu with the debian menu in it to automatically > have it merged, thanks to the applications-merged directory. > > If you have menu-xdg already installed, you can simulate that by editing > your default menu file (e.g. copy /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu > to ~/.config/menus/), and adding to it: > <Menu> > <Name>Debian</Name> > <MergeFile>/etc/xdg/menus/debian-menu.menu</MergeFile> > </Menu> > > And then all the debian menu will appear in a dedicated category. But I > don't really think this should be enabled/shipped by default, because the > debian menu and the xdg one are totally redundant. > > Cheers, > -- > Lionel > -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi _______________________________________________ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xfce-devel
