[Goodies-dev] How to write panel plugins?

Simon Steinbeiß simon.steinbeiss at elfenbeinturm.at
Mon Aug 20 15:40:12 CEST 2012


On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:33:07 -0400
"Matt X" <edelstahl at gmx.us> wrote:

> > I've done that by 
> > copying and editing the menu file and it works fine so far. But it really 
> > lacks the possibility of editing the menu by a GUI.
> 
> There's a patch for alacarte that allows it to edit xfce menus (I'm not sure where to find it).  The panel plug in really doesn't have anything to do with that (except for possibly starting the editor).  Not too long back, there was talk on this list about writing a non-Python editor (alacarte's in Python) for xfce menus, but not much has been done on it, afaik.  You're very welcome to do that.

There's a patch in Xubuntu for Alacarte, but I would recommend you try MenuLibre [1]. It's far superior to any other menu editor I've ever tried and works perfectly with Xfce.

 - Simon

[1] https://launchpad.net/menulibre


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