panel: main menu missing

[Benedikt Meurer]

Angelina Carlton wrote:
>>AFAIK, debian uses xfce4.0.6 in testing/unstable and I know that in 4.0.6,
>>there was no menu button in xfce-panel, so the only thing to get this feature
>>is to upgrade to 4.2.0, for example from oscillation.org repositories:
>>
>>deb http://www.os-works.com/debian unstable main
>>deb-src http://www.os-works.com/debian unstable main
>>
>>testing instead of unstable probably works also
> 
> 
> Ah ok, I didn't like to use those sources because on the site they don't
> list anything for unstable, they tell you to use pinning and testing.
> 
> from their site:
> 
>>We don't test these packages on Debian unstable (sid), but it is
>>likely that they work with unstable as well

Thats basicly the deal with Debian. The os-cillation repository has 
"testing" as distribution (for various reasons). If your APT is 
configured to prefer a distribution != "testing", it will assign a lower 
priority to the os-cillation packages, even tho they are newer, and so 
it will install the old packages from the preferred distribution. The 
`Debian way' of solving this `problem' is to use APT pinning (or wait).

It has been reported that APT pinning works pretty well with the Xfce 
packages and Debian/unstable (and even other Debian-based 
distributions). So, if you want to use 4.2.0, add the 3 lines to your 
preferences file, or stay with 4.0 from unstable.

greets,
Benedikt