xfce code help

[Roberto Sobral Lima]

Janis, thank you very much for your time ! .. My starting point was
desktop-menu.c, but I thought I was in the wrong path as it seemed to
me to be too desktop specific, and I believed the entry point should
be anywhere out there..

I'll keep studying but will follow your advice on looking for
something easier to start and read the specs you pointed me to..

Again, thank you very much..
Roberto

2009/8/2 Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 21:28:17 -0400
> Roberto Sobral Lima <betolima1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Really sorry for bothering with this stupid question, but I've been
>> studying Xfce code for more than months now, read all tutorials and
>> docs I could, and still didn't find what I'm looking for ..
>>
>> I'm not quite familiar on gtk and choose xfce for learning it, and
>> perhaps, I wish, contribute with free software someday .. for start
>> I'd like to add some fancy features on menu, like "windows style
>> right-click to add or remove entries" kind of thing ..
>
> Ugh, don't start with this one. Menu editing is actually quite complex
> and will only get you frustrated unless you know what you're doing. I'd
> suggest to wait with it until garcon, the rewrite of libxfce4menu,
> matures and gains a menu editing API which will allow you to implement
> this feature with a few lines of code.
>
>> After a lot of thinking and
>> compiling/gdb'ing/erasing/screeming/keyboard breaking, I still pretty
>> much lost in how xfce uses all those xfce_menubutton, xfce-menu-item,
>> xfce-appmenuitem .. specially where to attach a signal for right
>> clicks ...
>
> The correct signal for right clicks should be the 'button-press-event'
> signal of the GtkMenuItem that is created based on XfceMenuItems in
> xfdesktop/modules/menu/desktop-menu.c.
>
>> I tried a lot of combinations but every time it lacks
>> something, sometimes the component doesn't accept the signal,
>> sometimes doesn't have the information about the menu file where it
>> comes from ..
>
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html - this
> is where the menu format is defined. Again, it's relatively complex and
> you might want to start with something easier.
>
>  - Jannis
>
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