about symbolic links on Desktop

nusret nbalci_l at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 1 20:54:02 CEST 2006



--- Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/1/06, nusret <nbalci_l at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > On 6/1/06, nusret <nbalci_l at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > Now, I see people prefer different approaches.
> As
> > > I
> > > > said, *I* don't like the current one (i guess
> it's
> > > > just like the one in KDE, right?--I am not
> sure
> > > > though), so I wanted to know if it's possible
> to
> > > > modify.
> > >
> > > Indeed, and this is what I've done since 4.2.  I
> > > like to have the menu
> > > plugin on my panel with the full menu (i.e. what
> you
> > > get with Ubuntu),
> > > and I like to make a short right-click menu with
> my
> > > most-used apps for
> > > the desktop.  Let me know if such a
> configuration
> > > interests you and I
> > > can post some details on how to do that.
> >
> > I would certainly be interested. This can give me
> > further clues about how to proceed to make some
> > customizations. I would appreciate it if you could
> > post some pointers/instructions.
> 
> OK.  First of all, xfdesktop always uses
> ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml, so that's the one
> you have to use on
> the desktop.  You can configure which file you use
> for the panel menu
> plugin (in the plugin properties), so that's the one
> I use for the
> full menu.  (Aptly, I name the file bigmenu.xml.) 
> You can copy it in
> Thunar or (IIRC) open and save as that from the menu
> editor.
> 
> Once you do that, it's just a matter of customizing
> each to suit your taste!

Great! now when i invoke the menu editor, only my
Desktop (right-click) menu disappears ;). But I got
the idea, thank you very much! Unfortunately, menu
editor that comes with Xubuntu seems hopelessly broken
for now, so I have to edit the menu.xml by hand. I can
do that though :)

Regards,

Nusret



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