start menu request (Was: Re: reporting for duty)

[edscott wilson garcia]

El dom, 29-06-2003 a las 22:56, Biju Chacko escribió:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 18:39:33 +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
> > Both of you are right. There are certainly arguments in favor of such
> > a plugin, it's just that I'm not going to write it any time soon ;-)
> > 
> > Also, it should be using the freedesktop menu spec. This is not
> > entirely trivial. Ask botsie ;-)
> > 
> > If anyone else is interested in writing this, I'm sure many people are
> > willing to help, including myself.
> 
> I'd suggest that this be postponed to the 4.2 dev cycle. I'm planning
> (assuming I actually get the time to do it) to put a freedesktop menu
> parser into libxfcegui then. Havoc sent me some code that should help.
> 
> I wouldn't like this kind of plugin to be in the default XFce config,
> but it does introduce flexibility that certain people may want.
> 
> With this, and a 'taskbar' panel plugin you could emulate a K or gnome
> panel.

On the plugin subject, a gkrellm compatibility plugin would be nice so
that the user could add his/her favourite gkrellm plugin to the panel. I
wish I had some more time...

regards

Edscott

> 
> Ewwwwww! Yuck!
> 
> On second thoughts, maybe that *isn't* such a good idea.
> 
> :)
> 
> -- b
> 
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