xfce4-menueditor-1.0pre1

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Jean-François Wauthy wrote:

> I've released v1.0pre1 of the menueditor.
[...]
> Donwload it here: http://users.skynet.be/p0llux/

i suppose this email is a bit old since i see 1.0rc3 up there now.  
anyway, just downloaded and installed, looks cool.

within the next week or so xfdesktop cvs will be able to to put icons 
on menu items with the <app> tag and the <builtin> tag (atribute is 
'icon="file.png"') (btw, danny, i fixed the crash bug that appears on 
some submenu popups).  presumably you should be able to put icons on 
<menu> elements as well, but that isn't currently possible with how 
GtkItemFactory works (grr).  support for menu icons in the editor would 
be great.

after i finish the icon stuff, i'm planning on rewriting the menu parser 
to use glib's GMarkup xml parser rather than libxml.  unfortunately, 
GMarkup's xml subset doesn't support user-specified xml entities, so the 
"&menu2;" menu inclusion method will break.  in my private tree i've 
added another element type, <include>.  right now it has 2 possible 
attributes.  i suppose an example is the most illustrative:
<include type="file" src="menu2.xml" />
<include type="system" />
the "file" type either points to an absolute path or a path interpreted 
as relative to ~/.xfce4.  the file it points to is expected to be a 
fully-validating xfdesktop-menu file (it is parsed as its own entity).  
the "system" type represents the inclusion of a set of autogenerated 
app menus from .desktop files found on the user's HD.  with support for 
this in the menu editor it makes it easy for the user to decide if 
he/she wants the autogenerated menu or just a custom one that they put 
together.  the default menu file distributed will of course include the 
system menu.  comments?  suggestions?

just for example, for icons:
<app name="Calculator" cmd="calc" term="no" icon="calculator.png" />
(nb: the icon path search method is rather complicated and still needs 
tweaking, but suffice to say it looks in several well-known locations, 
including some paths that depend on the xfce4-panel icon theme.  it's 
also possible to specify an absolute path for the icon, of course.  
eventually it might be useful to move the icon-finding code into 
libxfce4util as xfce4_find_system_icon() or somesuch.)

	-brian