new menuing stuff in xfdesktop

[Rodrigo Coacci]

On 10/20/07, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I finally closed a long-standing bug[1] -- the right-click context menu
> when file/launcher icons is enabled should be pretty sane now.  If you
> right-click on an empty area of the desktop, you'll get the desktop's
> context menu (with 'open in new window', 'create launcher', etc.).  For
> both file icons and window icons, every context menu that 'replaces'
> the standard xfce root menu now has the root menu in a submenu.
>
> When desktop icons are disabled, the old behavior is retained.
>
> Please test the hell out of this, as it required some reasonably large
> changes in how menuing is handled in xfdesktop, and it's possible I
> introduced a few bugs here and there.
>
> (Related note: I bumped the version requirements for libxfce4menu
> because Jannis changed some behavior.  Be sure to update libxfce4menu
> first, otherwise, the root menu won't appear at all.)
>
>         -brian
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2531
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Too sad it won't be backported but at least now we have better behavior for
4.6. Thanks!

-- 
Cheers,
      Rodrigo

A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open
windows.
                   ~Linus Torvalds
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