xfce4-menueditor

Ali Abdallah aliov at xfce.org
Sun Nov 2 22:54:19 CET 2008


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:41:52 +0100 Ali Abdallah wrote:
>
>   
>>> Nobody has started to work on that and we're way behind feature
>>> freeze already, so this is not going to happen for 4.6. The editor
>>> could be developed as a goodie though, so it's release cycle would
>>> be independent of the core Xfce.
>>>
>>>   - Jannis
>>>   
>>>   
>>>       
>> I know that this is not going to happen for 4.6, there is no time 
>> anyway.  as a goodie i can start doing something concerning it, if
>> agreed.
>>     
>
> AFAIK, no one else is working on this, so go for it if you have time.
> You'll want to head over to freedesktop.org and read the menu
> specification.  You'll also want to look at the desktop entry spec and
> basedir spec (and possibly others?), as the menu spec references those.
>
> You should also look at the STATUS file in libxfce4menu's source tree.
> Ideally you should avoid using menu spec features that libxfce4menu
> doesn't implement yet.  (It may or may not be possible to do this while
> also creating an actually-useful menu editor, though.)
>
>   
Actually i started today collecting the necessary information about it, 
i'll drop a mail here if i have questions.

Best Regards,
Ali.



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