help with "Xfce menu" on panel

[Jason Keltz]

Hi.

I have configured the "desktop" menu with most of the applications on 
our system.  I have created an "Xfce Menu" on the panel which points at 
the desktop menu file by default.  Now, users can get at all of the 
applications through the desktop menu, or through the panel.  The idea 
is that as the user updates their desktop menu, the panel menu updates 
as well.  Unfortunately, it doesn't work like this.  When the user 
updates the desktop menu through the "Desktop" configuration in 
settings, the global desktop menu is copied into the users 
.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml directory.  However, the "Xfce menu" on 
the panel still points to the global file in 
sysdir/etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml.  Now, the user sees their changes 
on the desktop menu, but not on the panel menu.  Since the menu.xml file 
is only copied to the users home directory if they make changes to it, I 
can't even just point it at the file in the users home directory because 
it may not even be there.

Is there any way to tell the Xfce panel menu to look at local menu.xml 
if it exists, and if it doesn't to look at the global one?

Thanks for any help you can provide...

Jason Keltz
jas at cs.yorku.ca