What can we expect in Xfce 4.8 ? For the menu...
I'll start to write some posts in English, in case some English speakers are interested by Xfce news, I made a category for each language, so that people can read the posts of their preferred language easily. Xfce 4.6 is not out yet, but some developers have already started to implement nice things for the future versions, particularly Xfce 4.8.
Libxfce4menu : easily editable menus ?
People have been complaining for a long time that menu editing is a pain in Xfce : Xfce 4.4 menu editor was quite limited. 4.6 is a bit better as you can put Desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications/ to modify the menu, but it lacks a GUI to do those actions quickly and easily.
Jannis Pohlmann, the developer of libxfce4menu, has recently announced that he has started to improve libxfce4menu so that it implements the whole Freedesktop menu specification. This work is only at its early stages, but it seems to be quite promising : he published a video where one can see him editing the Xfce menu using Alacarte, the Gnome menu editor.
His code is available on git.xfce.org and works pretty well. After installing this new version, you just need to restart xfdesktop and xfce4-panel, to edit the menu using Alacarte and to configure the menu panel plugin to use the ~/.config/menus/applications.menu menu file.
Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to set a custom menu file for the right click menu of the desktop, so no right click custom menu for now... This new version will also allow some neat things, which might interest sysadmins, such as having a menu file on a network and use it on the local machine.
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Good to see you're blogging (in English) as well now. Nice design, too
Nice news, thanks for the post. Keep up the good work and post more and more interesting entries..
Oh btw, u r site contents are still in french lang, which most english peeps find to understand...Including myself
Sorry Zenwalker, your comments were flagged as spam and I accidentaly deleted one...
I wonder why it was marked as spam.
Any ways, as i said earliar, u r site is still in some french language many places, even while writing comment now. So if possible, please change it.
And regarding XFCE, man you guys are rocking my world. Keep up the great work fellas. 4.6 looks way very impressive. I cant wait to try it.