system menu

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Ondrej Mihalyi wrote:

>So, is it at least possible to find out which button/option in system menu runs which command?  I'm sometimes confused, what does 'screeen reader and magnifyer', 'ATI control', 'ADSL configuration' mean.
>I know it's mainly gnome stuff, but I'd like to have an idea about what's going to be run, when I click on those and it bothers me, when I have to launch it first and then type ps ax into console to see what's running.
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>I'd like to have that feature, if it's not too much, that if I right click on a program in a desktop menu, a simple a popup with informations would appear, something like in appfinder.
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the problem is that gtk menus aren't really designed so you can 
right-click on them and display another menu.  it's doable, but it would 
be a bit of a pain.  perhaps something for the new menu system in 4.4.

    -brian

>It would be also nice, if there was in that popup and option to launch xfce-menueditor with editting dialog immediately open for that program, but I think that would need a slight modification of command line options for the menu editor to start directly edit some item in menu.
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at present, the menueditor doesn't "see" what's inside the system menu, 
so that wouldn't work.

>I believe it's not difficult to code what I prooposed, I would've tried to do it myself, if I knew the code for both apps.
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be careful what you "believe" without knowing what the codebase looks 
like ^_~.

    -brian

>Cheers,
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>Ondrej
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>On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:33:36 -0800
>"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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>>Tomas Schertel wrote:
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>>>In xfce menu editor, there is a item called 'system'.. is there a way
>>>to edit it ???
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>>nope.  if you want only a subset of items in there, you need to remove 
>>the system menu entirely, and use something like xfce4-appfinder to add 
>>only those that you want to the menu.
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>>    -brian
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