[Solved] Menu Editor

marty_nz · 2011-05-08 20:10:35

Hi,
I.m using xfce 4.8.0 xubuntu for the first time. :-)
the list of installed programs tells me there's a program called Menu Editor.
I can't find how to start this program. (freedesktop.org - Software/pyxdg)
:-(
thank you

Last edited by marty_nz (2011-05-08 20:33:27)

Nick · 2011-05-08 21:08:47

You can only use alacarte to edit the menus.

marty_nz · 2011-05-08 22:29:41

many thanks!!
A bit confusing that picture which is shown in ubuntu software center.

GS · 2011-05-09 17:59:38

Nick wrote:

You can only use alacarte to edit the menus.

Wow! I started to install alacarte to give the menu editor a shot. That's some dependency list!

It's nice that folks who want a menu editor have one now, but I think I'll just stick with editing the .desktop files -- if and when I actually need to change my menus. It's not like it's really all that hard to make the changes manually.

The Xfce devs have spoiled me.

Nick · 2011-05-09 19:40:15

I sometimes advice Xfce distros to make an Xfce-specific alacarte because it only requires a single sed line to do so

sed -e 's/gnome-desktop-item-edit/exo-desktop-item-edit/g' -i Alacarte/MainWindow.py

After that the only dependencies are gnome-menus and exo.

GS · 2011-05-10 00:09:12

Nice! Thank you for the information! I'm going to watch, with interest, to see just what Debian is going to be doing with respect to this.

I can't tell you and the other developers just how impressed I am with this environment. I send my sincere appreciation for your efforts and my congratulations for the results.

MyOtheHedgeFox · 2011-05-11 13:17:34

Not quite by the way, found another main menu editor for those unwilling to meddle with Alacarte (Nick's suggestion didn't work for me, resulting in ImportError: No module named Alacarte.MainWindow).

That one is called lxmed and uses Java.
http://lxmed.sourceforge.net/index.html

The hint was taken from: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … g-xfce-48/

wkr · 2011-05-11 18:51:18

Usefull tip MyOtheHedgeFox, thanks

Sideburns · 2011-05-11 22:10:28

Nick, I've moved from Gnome to XFCE. Alacarte does let me edit the main menu, but the changes don't show up. Am I expected to know that I have to log out and back in before they take effect? If so, why? It wasn't needed in Gnome, that's for sure.

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