confused with "system" menu

[Erik Harrison]

On Apr 4, 2005 1:21 PM, Qiangning Hong <hongqn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2005 1:12 AM, Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you mean the root menu, accessed by right-clicking on the desktop?
> > If so, xfce4-menueditor will do the job.
> 
> No, I'm not talking about that.
> 
> > If you mean the part of the root menu that is including the system menus,
> > these are imported from gnome and kde menus, and I have no idea how to
> > change that one. Maybe there's a menu-editor for gnome or kde?
> 
> Yes, the system menus.
> 
> I think XFCE is compatible with the freedesktop standard, which
> defines the application menu using desktop files.  And actually, every
> entrie shown in appfinder is correspond to a desktop file in
> /usr/share/applications/ directory.  If you add/remove/modify the
> desktop file, the system menu will change too.
> 
> To show this, you can do the following test: copy and rename
> xfcalendar.desktop to myxfcalendar.desktop, and edit it with a
> utf8-compatible editor (I use vim), change Name to "My Calendar",
> change Categories to "Other", and save it.  Then right click at
> desktop, you will see there is a "Other" submenu with a "My Calendar"
> entry inside the system menu.
> 
> So, I believe the system menu is associated with desktop files, too,
> just like appfinder.
> 
> The appfinder utility acts ideally, but the system menu behaves some
> odd.  Some entries don't show, e.g. the openoffice writer entry in my
> first post; some enties show in not-know-why categories, e.g. the
> xfcalendar in system menu is in "Office" category, however the desktop
> file tells it should be in "Calendar", and you can not find it in
> appfinder's Office category.
> 
> So this is what makes me confuse.  The system menu seems get
> infomation from desktop files and use the info to generate menus in a
> mannar that I cannot understand.
> 

Possibly a cache issue? Menu generation is slow, so xfdesktop keeps a
cache of the generated menu, which can cause a delay between
installing applications and them showing up in the menu.

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