Feature: xfdesktop: external command for root menu

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 01.11.22 03:25, Brian Tarricone wrote:

> As I mentioned in the MR (sorry, I've been bad at keeping up with the mailing list lately),
> I'm curious to know if anyone has really asked for this. 

I've been actually hired by clients to do that (and lots of other
things in xfwm4).

> I'd rather not add features like this (which will pretty much have to be included and maintained forever) 
> unless there's actual demand for this. 

Yes, there's actual demand in industrial installations where an custom
application is showing its own menu instead.

In a way, it's a logical continuation of the already existing feauture
for disabling this menu. The code is pretty simple, so I don't see much
maintenance overhead.

Of course, we could also think about generalizing the whole topic so we
can assign the menus to keys arbitrarily. But that's probably not a tiny
change anymore.


--mtx

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Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
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