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

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Sun, 29, Jun 2003, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

> > > >Well, anyone could write it, but I'm not going to. I would prefer
> > > >to have that available in the desktop mouse menu.
> > > >
> > > Yes, this would be nice too. But you see, the panel is always
> > > accessible (unless you bring it down to normal or bottom layer --
> > > but why?), and the desktop is not (if you have many windows). So it
> > > seems to me that the button on the panel makes more sense
> > > usability-wise. Any additional considerations I didn't take into
> > > account?
> > 
> > I can add another one -- what about those not running xfdesktop...?
> > 
> 
> Also, it should be using the freedesktop menu spec. This is not entirely
> trivial. Ask botsie ;-)

IMHO the panel should use the Menu spec as well, having a special menu
for the panel stuff, but thats something for xfce4.2 :)

> 	Jasper

Benedikt

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