xfce menu and exo open

[daniele favara]

On 2/24/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> daniele favara wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > i'm testing xfce and i have to say it improved very much since the last release.
> >
> > i'm really happy i trusted xfce and i used it as default DM on my proj.
> >
> > i like very much even the exo-open stuff and i think it could be used
> > even in xfce menu and thunar uca.xml:
> >
> > exo-open  --launch TerminalEmulator
> >
> > the same for Browser.
>
> Sure. It should probably also be in the default panel setup; maybe
> WebBrowser, MailReader, TerminalEmulator, Pager, Logout, Clock... but
> that's Jasper's business.
>
> The default uca.xml serves as an example; while it's possible to use
>
>  "sh -c 'cd \"%f\" && exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator'"
>
> it doesn't really present a good example.
>
>  "Terminal --working-directory %f"
>
> is brief and therefore a better example how the custom actions work.
>
> That said, I could add a --working-directory option to exo-open as well,
> hm, dunno... file a bug report if you think it's useful. ;)
>
> > as xfce cames with 2 fms .. xffm and thunar, is it possible to change
> > the entry in the menu.xml with an "exo-open" like solution ?
> > at the moment there is:
> > <app name="File Manager (xffm)" cmd="xffm" icon="file-manager"/>
>
> sh -c 'exo-open $HOME'
>
> should do the trick.
>
> > ciao
>
> Benedikt

thanks these are all the infos i needed :). I'll  file a bug report
explaining why i think it could be important.