menu editing

[Biju Chacko]

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On Mon, 12 May 2003 15:51:30 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:

>  I started implementing menu editing, and of course immediately
>  understood better what problems Waldo was seeing. ;-) I'm trying to
>  think through the editing problem, not sure I have it figured out
>  yet, but I want to post some thoughts and see if anyone has feedback.

When I implemented the menuing system for XFce4, I was fairly unhappy
with the complexity of this spec, especially the lack of clarity w.r.t
editing. In addition, a significant component of my users said that they
*didn't* want to see a system-generated menu.

I finally decided to provide a simple xml based single file format with
the VFolder menu as a (yet to be implemented) optional plugin. The
system menu is read-only, all user editing happens on our simple format.

This is just a cruddy workaround, but it satisfies our (admittedly
geeky) users.

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