Menu file format.

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 6/15/2006 7:13 AM, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Guðmundur Bjarnason a écrit :
>> Hello XFCE.
>>
>> I have a situation where I would like to make a generic menu across window 
>> managers. I am running KDE, GNOME and XFCE. So far both GNOME and KDE support 
>> one file format that I can easily adapt but XFCE has a very different format 
>> that would require a substantial adaptation. Is there any moves towards using 
>> the same format as them? I would like to narrow the menus down to a very 
>> simple structure that uses the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications only 
>> and one menu file that defines menu folders. I can't figure out how do do 
>> this in XFCE in the first place. I would very much appreciate any helpful 
>> comments from someone.
> 
> You're confusing menu and launchers. Xfce supports the XDG menu format 
> that both KDE and GNOME support thru the Xfce menu (available either 
> from the desktop menu or from the panel menu)

Not quite, actually.  The menu file formats are more or less
incompatible.  Xfce uses a similar algorithm to implement the part of
the spec that reads and categorises .desktop files for the autogenerated
portion of the menu, but the actual menu files are totally different.

We've talked about doing a 'real' fd.o menu parser/generator, but that's
a ways off.  I think Jannis was interested in doing it for 4.6.  Benny
had done one for his os-cillation/xfld version of xfdesktop, but I think
he was unhappy with it for some various reasons.

	-brian


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