Menus

[Erik Harrison]

On 11/8/05, chris dunn <chris at dunnz.org> wrote:
> Erik Harrison wrote:
>
> > On 11/8/05, chris dunn <chris at dunnz.org> wrote:
> >
> >>Having moved to XFCE4 under Ubuntu Breezy (after the initial Gnome
> >>default), I have ended up with a confusing desktop menu situation.
> >>
> >>The desktop menu seems to include everything under the sun, including
> >>some of the original Gnome entries. All the Xfce 4 entries seem to be
> >>present under Settings.
> >>
> >>I'd like to completely revamp the menus to suit my needs and am
> >>floundering around trying to find out how the desktop menu generation
> >>system works.
> >>
> >>Running smeg seems to show a (somewhat) different set of entries to that
> >>which actually exists on the desktop menu. Running Xfce 4 menu editor
> >>shows only a few basic entries from the existing desktop menu. I've been
> >>unable to locate any useful information on the operation of smeg or xfce
> >>4 menu editor.
> >>
> >>Where are these three (desktop + smeg + xfce 4 menu editor) getting
> >>their information from?
> >>
> >>Is there a desktop menu primer somewhere that I've failed to spot?
> >
> >
> > You could check the Xfdesktop FAQ
> >
> > http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/xfce4/#faq
> >
> >
> >>Or can some kind soul give me a pointer as to where to start sorting out
> >>this chaos.
> >
> >
> > It's pretty simple - applications now install files like gimp.desktop
> > to a few standard public locations, specfically so that Gnome, KDE,
> > and Xfce can all discover the applications for things like menus.
> >
> > By default the Xfce menu uses a magic include that includes a "system"
> > menu which is auto generated from these files. You have three options
> > to change what appears in your menu.
> >
> > 1) Edit an entire menu from scratch, including only those apps you
> > care about. This will give you exactly what you want, at the expense
> > of not discovering newly installed applications.
> >
> > 2) Edit the .desktop files themselves, or even simply delete those you
> > don't care about.
> >
> > 3) Simply uninstall any apps you don't care about, thus removing their
> > .desktop files.
> >
> >
>
> OK. Thanks for all of this.
>
> It looks as though I can now spend a few hours getting my menus in the
> shape I want.
>
> But why do smeg and xfce 4 menu-editor not pick up the same menu
> listings as the desktop menu. Particularly the xfce menu-editor which I
> would have thought was geared up to read the xfce desktop menu.

I'm not sure what smeg is - so I'm not sure there.

As for the menu editor, what differences are you seeing? Remember, the
"System" menu is a magic include - it's contents don't show up in the
editor because they are generated on the fly

>
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