Just reinstalled Xfce from trunk and here is my findings...

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Joao Pedrosa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2006/3/12, Aaron <aaronf0 at gmail.com>:
>> idk, is it not identifying your locale correctly, giving you the wrong
>> menu? it could be a bug, im not a dev, so i cant comment, but it looks
>> like xfdesktop and xfmenu-editor are each assuming two diffrent
>> default locales. maybe if you can figure out which files each is
>> looking at?
>>
> 
> After I changed it to "Use custom menu file", and changed the file
> to /home/dewd/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml
> I was able to edit the file successfully.
> 
> The strange thing is that as I reported originally, I could edit the file
> and save it, but it wouldn't change anything in the menu and neither
> would show any error like "couldn't write to file X". Maybe there is
> a usability issue there.
> 
> Thanks for pushing me through it.

Yeah, there's a little buglet there.  Here's what happens:

1.  It sees that you don't have a custom menu in ~/.config, so it uses
the systemwide one in /etc.
2.  You open it up in the menu editor.  The menu editor is smart, and
knows you're opening the system menu as a non-root user, and so saves
your changes as a custom menu in ~/.config
3.  The menu is not so smart, and doesn't notice that a new custom menu
appeared in ~/.config.

Bottom line: restarting the panel (or just removing and re-adding the
plugin) would probably have fixed it.  Yeah, it's dumb, but I haven't
gotten around to fixing it.  Patches welcome.

	-brian

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