menu editor does nothing?

[Olivier Fourdan]

Jean-Francois,

Well frankly I think this approach is not good, frm a usability stand
point. The user doesn't care about menu.xml in "dot xfce4". 

The way it should work, it should load the user menu if present of the
system default menu otherwise. Then the user makes some customiation and
press "save", the $HOME/.xfce4/menu.xml is saved but the user doesn't
have to know wbout how it works internally.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 16:36, Jean-François Wauthy wrote:
> Le mer 05/05/2004 à 00:13, Olivier Fourdan a écrit :
> > Ahh, got it finally. menu editor doesn't works if there is not menu in
> > users's .xfce dir:
> > 
> > I/O error : Permission denied
> > I/O error : Permission denied
> > unlink(menueditor_app.menu_file_name): Permission denied
> >  
> > and boom, the file is not saved!
> > 
> ok it's fixed, a error message tell the user that the menu couldn't be
> saved. I've still problem with the saveas, gonna be fixed soon.
> 
> > BTW, it would be good if everybody could just focus on killing bugs and
> > code cleanup instead of adding new features now.
> > 
> > Please test your software, check for memory leaks, check for compilation
> > warnings, check your makefiles (try make dist, make rpm, make distclean,
> > etc. make sure all files are included in "make dist")
> > 
> > Don't be affraid of removing $HOME/.xfce4 and look for discrepancy
> > between default settings and actual values, etc.
> > 
> > Be assured that anything known to be unstable won't be part of the
> > release of 4.2 if ever.
> > 
> > As a reminder, the goal of xfce is to keep things simple, for the users
> > and for developpers. I really prefer simple, maintainable and clean code
> > over a full feature bloated buggy code.
> > 
> > Also, you don't have to satisfy every user request. Keep the number of
> > user options as low as possible. Make choice, use them as default, and
> > get ready to argue when users disagree.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Olivier.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 00:00, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > > Humm, odd, just when I come to say that it doesn't work for me, well, it
> > > works...
> > > 
> > > The warning remain though. 
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Olivier.
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 23:05, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > For some reason the menu editor never worked for me.
> > > > 
> > > > I just noticed that it display tons of warnings in the log:
> > > > 
> > > > [ofourdan at shuttle menueditor]$ ./xfce4-menueditor
> > > >  
> > > > (xfce4-menueditor:19262): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: unable to set
> > > > property `text' of type `gchararray' from value of type `gpointer'
> > > >  
> > > > ....
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
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