PPS: GUI password changer

[killermoehre]

Am 24.04.2013 10:30, schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
> OT:
> 
> On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 10:09 +0200, killermoehre wrote:
>> Am 24.04.2013 09:58, schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
>>> On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 09:49 +0200, killermoehre wrote:
>>>> Alacarte is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore.
>>>
>>> I agree, but I also wouldn't change a password using a GUI.
>>> For those who prefer GUI's for most work, what can they use instead of
>>> Alacarte?
>>>
>>
>> »exo-desktop-item-edit -c ~/.local/share/applications/« would be a GUI
>> for creating .desktop-items. Another one would be menulibre[0] which is
>> very nice.
> 
> Yes, but it doesn't improve the Alacarte situation. Try to make a
> launcher under a special menu rubric using it ;) and in addition the
> user who prefer GUIs, needs to add a launcher to launch
> "exo-desktop-item-edit -c ~/.local/share/applications" first by
> herself/himself.
> 
>> [0] https://launchpad.net/menulibre
> 
> [root at archlinux rocketmouse]# pacman -S menulibre
> error: target not found: menulibre
> [root at archlinux rocketmouse]# yaourt menulibre
> 1 aur/menulibre 13.04.12-2 [snip]
> 
> Hm? It does display hidden menu entries too, but to notice which entry
> is hidden, you need to look deeper. The Editor is nice, however, to
> really customize the Xfce4 menu you can't use a GUI.

This is due the fact that the freedesktop specs[0][1] for this are quite
boring. They are not even really complicated, you can create such files
by hand, just boring and dry.

[0] http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/
[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/


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