[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#436525: Bug#436525: xfce4: does not adhere to new Debian menu policy

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

reassign #436525 xfdesktop4
thanks

On mer, 2007-08-08 at 01:09 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Package: xfce4
> Version: 4.4.1
> Severity: important
> 
> the xfce menu does not adhere to the new debian menu policy.  
> recently, a lot of the menus were renamed and reordered [0].  this is
> also discussed in bug report #361418 [1].
> 
> the problem is that new packages built for menu 2.1.35 or newer may
> not have correct entries in the xfce menu (if the heirarchy has been 
> changed).
> 
> note that the gnome menu has already been updated to support this 
> transition.  this caused me to scratch my head for way too long because
> the menu entry for a package i am working on was not showing up under
> xfce, but it did in gnome.
> 
> i am marking this as important for now, but it might need to be
> considered serious since the menu is not presented as directed by the
> debian menu policy.
> 
> thanks for all the hard work.
> 

I'm not completely aware of the way Debian menus are generated for Xfce,
but afaict, the menu used by xfdesktop is generated with update-menus,
using /etc/menu-methods/xfdesktop4.

Did you try to run update-menus after working on your package? What is
the precise problem? How does your application appear
in /etc/xdg/xfce4/menu/menudefs.hook?

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis