First impression: libxfce4menu

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:37:47 +0200, Harold Aling wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> Today I (re)compiled libxfce4menu and xfdesktop4 from SVN to enable
> the new Xfce menu. I know that it's still in pre-beta status, but
> I'll mention some things I've encountered so far...
> 
> - The 'Other' menu has disappeared

That's probably a good thing, no?  Just means everything is categorised
properly.  If something is missing, do file a bug -- but note that
legacy gnome and kde app directories are not indexed at present (I'm
not sure if it's worth 'fixing'; better to fix apps installing .desktop
files to deprecated locations).

> - Some icons are larger than others

Odd that that's new - icon loading is done exactly the same way as it
was before, and, indeed, all icons are loaded using
gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_at_size() using a global size, so I don't see
how this is possible.

> - Icons are drawn after the text is drawn. This causes the text to
> shift x pixels to the right a fraction of a second later (probably
> more noticeable on slower pc's)

This is not new either.  Icons have been lazy-loaded for a long time
now (4.4.0 does this as well; I don't recall if any releases in the
4.2 series do too). The original intent was to improve xfdesktop startup
time by reducing the time needed to generate the initial menu.  If menu
popup speed is an issue for you due to the lazy-loading, I'd suggest not
using SVG icons on older hardware.  They take orders of magnitude longer
to load and render than PNGs take.

> - 'Settings' now contains a lot of items. Maybe move all Xfce-related 
> items into a sub menu?

Nope.  Settings are settings.  Again, this shouldn't have changed,
though I do know that I need to reimplement the blacklist that we had
before to hide some KDE and GNOME control panels that had
badly-written .desktop files.

	-brian

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