editing menus.

[Tim]

On 02/04/12 19:55, Vincent wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews at eastlink.ca 
> <mailto:rayandrews at eastlink.ca>> wrote:
>
>     Gentlemen,
>
>     I'd trying to figure out how to edit my menus. I found lots of
>     info on the web, but all of it seems inapplicable. Eg.on
>     'wiki.xfce.org/faq <http://wiki.xfce.org/faq>' in the "How to edit
>     the auto generated menu ..." section there is reference to
>     'menu.xml' which doesn't exist anywhere on my system. Elsewhere I
>     read about 'xfce4-menueditor' which also does not exist here.
>     There's talk about an 'Edit menu' button in 'menu > settings >
>     desktop'. Can't find any such thing.
>
>     I managed to find 'xfce-applications.menu'  which has stuff like:
>
>     <Menu>
>     <Name>Development</Name>
>     <Directory>xfce-development.directory</Directory>
>     <Include>
>     <Category>Development</Category>
>     </Include>
>     </Menu>
>
>     And I recognize the main categories, but where is
>     'xfce-development.directory' ??
>     I'll edit by hand if I can figure out how the submenus work.
>
>     What's wrong? Am I perhaps missing some addon?  Am  I looking at
>     obsolete documentation? If so, is there something up to date?
>
>     BTW, I find it bothersome that some things connected with Xfce are
>     named thus:
>
>     'xfce-development.directory'
>
>     and others thus:
>
>     'xfce4-about.desktop'
>
>     ... sometimes the '4' is part of the name, othertimes not. Is
>     there a pattern to this? If there is not, I sure wish the devs
>     would settle on one form or the other. If there is a pattern I'd
>     be grateful if someone would explain it to me.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>
> Hi Ray,
>
> You could try installing the Alacarte menu editor and use that to edit 
> your menus.
>
> Best,
>
> Vincent
>
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> -- 
> Vincent
>
>

So does LXMenu Editor (LXmed) which is the menu editor for the LXDE

Tim