Menu file format.

[Guðmundur Bjarnason]

On Friday 16 June 2006 00:21, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> > 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

Thanks, that clarified things for me. I will be looking out for this in future 
versions of XFCE.

Gummi