An menu editor

Jean-François Wauthy pollux at castor.be
Sat Dec 27 16:40:52 CET 2003


I was also thinking about a menu editor as a goodie. It won't be too
difficult to write it in GTK/C because, the menu file is in XML, so the
libxml parse the file, the GUI show it, allow his edition and the libxml
save it. That's all.

Jean-François Wauthy

Le sam 27/12/2003 à 16:13, Vincent Schumaker a écrit :
> Jasper,
> 
> 	I was thinking about the menu editor as a goodie, not part of the
> xfce core.  If it were to be part of the core it would naturally be GTK/C.
> Really the only reason I suggested python is because I am a novice at best
> when it comes to GTK/C and I was futzing around with MenuMaker today and
> it seemed like it wouldn't be to difficult to use that code and just wrap
> pygtk around it.
> 
> 
> 				- Vincent Schumaker
> 
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
> > I don't think we're quite ready to add python as a dependency for xfce,
> > yet ;-)
> >
> > As far as I know no-one is working on a menu editor yet. However,
> > someone (Tuukka Mäkinen <tukem at iki.fi>) is looking at how to implement
> > the freedesktop menu spec for xfce 4. This work will require a menu
> > editor too, eventually. I'm not sure how far along this effort is,
> > probably not far enough to start thinking about a GUI.
> >
> > I don't know if this helps you at all, but that's the current situation
> > as far as I know ;-)
> >
> > 	Jasper
> >
> >
> > Op za 27-12-2003, om 14:52 schreef Jean-François Wauthy:
> > > I was thinking to write it in C using GTK+2... I would like to
> > > collaborate on such a project but the problem is that i don't know
> > > python...
> > >
> > > Jean-François Wauthy
> > >
> > > Le sam 27/12/2003 à 14:46, Vincent Schumaker a écrit :
> > > > A specific xfce menu editor does not exist (to my knowledge), however you
> > > > can use MenuMaker, a popular menumaker which supports dynamic menus.  I am
> > > > however also interested in writing a specific xfce menu editor.  I was
> > > > thinking about writing it in python with pygtk.  Have you any experience
> > > > with this and would you like to collaborate on such a project? My regards,
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 				- Vincent Schumaker
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Jean-François Wauthy wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I'm a beginner under XFCE and i love it. So I searched for a menu
> > > > > editor, but without results. Does it exist one ? If not I am ready to
> > > > > write it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Jean-François Wauthy
> > > > >
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