No "Edit Menu" in Applications menu properties ?

[Silvio Knizek]

Am Mi, 23. Jul, 2014 um 5:46 schrieb Ralf Mardorf 
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>:
> On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 06:44 -0400, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
>>  On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 06:18:41 +0200
>>  Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>>  
>>  > > The part about "All without GNOME dependencies" is a bit off, 
>> given
>>  > > gnome-menus is a dependency of menulibre...  
>>  > 
>>  > It isn't, but it's a dependency for alacarte. All the editors 
>> that can
>>  > be used to edit the Xfce4 menu are for GNOME, resp. GNOME forks 
>> and non
>>  > of them provides complete editing of the Xfce4 menu. Ok, for 
>> menulibre
>>  > there's the claim to be "your one-stop shop for menus in Linux, 
>> whether
>>  > you use Gnome, LXDE, XFCE, or Unity" - 
>> https://launchpad.net/menulibre .
>>  > 
>>  > [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi menulibre | grep Dep
>>  > Depends On     : gdk-pixbuf2  gsettings-desktop-schemas  
>> gtksourceview3
>>  >                  python2  python2-gconf  python2-gobject  
>> python2-xdg
>>  > Optional Deps  : None
>>  
>>  Interesting, the apt result is quite different and shows 
>> gnome-menus as a dependency:
>>  
>>  root at ron:/home # apt show menulibre | grep -A2 Depend
>>  Depends: python3, python3:any (>= 3.3.2-2~), gnome-menus (>= 
>> 3.5.3), python3-gi
>>           (>= 3.0), python3-psutil, gir1.2-gtk-3.0, gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 
>> (>= 3.5.3),
>>           gir1.2-glib-2.0, gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0, xdg-utils
> 
> There's an Arch PKGBUILD for menulibre version 2.0.4
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/me/menulibre/PKGBUILD it comes 
> with a
> hard dependency to gnome-menus.
> 
> I'm using another version.
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q menulibre
> menulibre 13.04.17-1
> 
> Likely upstream changed the code a lot.

The menu-parser in Xfce follows and includes the 
freedesktop-menu-spec[0] and the freedesktop-desktop-entry-spec[1]. 
Every editor implementing this specs can customize the Xfce menu. But 
AFAIK no one implements it fully.

Regards

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