[ubuntu-studio-devel] MenuLibre

[Len Ovens]

We have MenuLibre in our set of files (this is the xfce version of 
alacart) and I just tried it out. I don't like the way it works :)  It is 
version 2.0.4 and may have gotten better. Anyway I just changed an icon 
for one application and after that there was only this one application in 
one of our menus :P  This was in 14.04 LTS and I have yet to try it in V 
or W. It may have been fixed :)  But, when I looked at the file structure, 
it creates a whole duplicate of the system menu (with studio.menu merged) 
in ~/.config/menus and adds the changed file as a stub to that. This means 
that any change we would make to the system file to fix a bug would not 
help a user who had made any change in their menu at all.

I was hoping to use MenuLibre and remove the gnome Alacart, but it seems 
this is not a good idea at this time. I need to talk to the author I 
guess.

What I did learn... is that using <MergeFile type="parent"> may let us use 
any layout we wish.... but may break some DEs because we may end up 
specifying an app that they don't have. I will have to study this a bit 
(a lot) more.

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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net