Status of Xfce 4.8

[Johannes Lips]

On 06/15/2010 08:39 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:56:13 +0200
> Hungerburg<pch13 at myzel.net>  wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using xubuntu, the current realease, and swapped the xfce-panel for
>> awn-dock. its "cairo-menu" does not show the xfce4-settings-manager
>> application: maybe it does not provide a .desktop file? you might want
>> to take care of that in a future release.
>>
>> Thank you for the fine DE.
>>      
> It's not Xfce's problem; it's Xubuntu's/AWN's failure. There is in fact a .desktop file shipped with it, which you should have checked for before sending your email. Look in /usr/share/applications/xfce-settings-manager.desktop:
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> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=Xfce 4 Settings Manager
> Comment=Graphical Settings Manager for Xfce 4
> Exec=xfce4-settings-manager
> Icon=xfce4-settings
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> Categories=X-XFCE;Settings;DesktopSettings;
> OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
> GenericName=Settings Manager
> X-XfceSettingsManagerHidden=true
>
> . . . the "OnlyShowIn=XFCE" may be why it isn't showing up in a third-party application. Maybe it's not recognized as being a true Xfce environment. Either way, it's the fault of your distribution or AWN, not Xfce's fault.
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And if you are using cairo-menu it might not even be a awn problem but a 
problem of cairo-dock. So perhaps contact their support channels to get 
some help.

Greetings...
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