Question on menus

[Ryan Daly]

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:24 -0400, Ryan Daly wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:37 +0300, RommeDeSerieux wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:28:13 -0700
> > "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> >  
> > > Then that's your problem: non-standard categories aren't allowed ^_~.
> > 
> > Why? Isn't that a bug?
> 
> I kind of thought the same thing.  Not to blow KDE's horn, but they
> allow it and they also follow the same freedesktop standard IIRC.

-- UPDATE --

I just stumbled across this.

I have copied the default xfce-registered-categories.xml file
from /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop.  (At the top of this file, it says you can
copy this to your $HOME/.config/xfce4/desktop to make customizations.)
I added my categories at the bottom.  For example, I have added the
following:

<!-- Local additions -->
	<category name=RDesktop" toplevel="true"/>

Then, in $HOME/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml, I added the following
line:

	<menu name="RDesktop" icon="DESKTOP"/>

And like magic :) it shows up in the menu.  BUT, I did find that if you
do not include the system menu (via the include tag), the above menu
will not show up.  Also, if the above menu is added as a submenu, it
does not show up.

It appears that there still needs to be some work on including menus of
this type, unless I'm missing something, which is entirely possible.