new appfinder

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Last two days I've been playing with a little personal project -- no,
> I'm not related to Brian, as far as I know ;-) -- and now I'd like to
> discuss what to do with it.
> 
> It's a new appfinder based on libxfce4menu. If you ask me it's already
> much nicer than the old one. Screenshot:
> 
>   http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/files/new-appfinder.png
> 
> A fun and possibly useful feature is that you can give it an
> alternative menu file to read, e.g:
> 
>   xfce4-appfinder /etc/xdg/menus/gnomecc.menu
> 
> For executing items it now simply runs exo-open:
> 
>   exo-open /path/to/app.desktop
> 
> I didn't really feel like reimplementing this in xfce4-appfinder.
> Benny, will that always work, or could it sometimes open an editor or
> perform some other action?

Will work as long as the .desktop file is sane.

Benedikt