Re: [gnome-flashback] GNOME Panel improvements

[Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Balló György <ballogyor gmail com> wrote:

2014-10-16 19:29 GMT+02:00 Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>:
>>>  2. Use custom menu layout. The official GNOME menu layout adds some
>>> additional categories, which may confuse users. Reduce them in our
>>> custom menu layout file.
>>
>>
>> It is not that simple as you think...
>>
>> We patched ubuntu in similar way. Only custom menu file was added to
>> gnome-menu package and gnome-panel.desktop file was edited to set
>> XDG_MENU_PREFIX. This is only workaround and still does not solve problem
>> fully. That is way I created this patch -
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732548.
>>
>> At least one problem is that Alacarte (menu editing) program will use menu
>> file XDG_MENU_PREFIX "applications.menu". That means users trying to edit
>> menu will see different menu from what is available in gnome-panel.
>>
>> To properly fix this bug we need above patch accepted in gnome-session or
>> other way to set XDG_MENU_PREFIX for whole session.
>>
>> I have not tried, but there might be a way to change XDG_MENU_PREFIX
>> without above patch:
>>
>> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-session/tree/gnome-session/org.gnome.SessionManager.xml#n8
>>
>> But then we need application that will be started in initialization phase
>> and set up XDG_MENU_PREFIX to "gnome-flashback-". gnome-session set it to
>> "gnome-". If this would work then I would probably do this:
>>
>> 1) Create new application gnome-flashback-init that will be run in
>> initialization phase. At least for now its only task would be to set
>> XDG_MENU_PREFIX.
>> 2) I would add our custom menu in gnome-flashback module as it was made
>> for this - place where to add all missing things for our session. It should
>> be named gnome-flashback-applications.menu
>> 3) Update gnome-panel to use XDG_MENU_PREFIX "applications.menu". This way
>> file name would not be hardcoded.
>>
>> I will try this after sending this mail.
>
>
> This should be fixed in gnome-panel wip/gnome-3.10+ and gnome-flashback
> master branches. Can you test?

It works, thanks! I would prefer if the XDG_MENU_PREFIX would be
configurable in gnome-session, but the current solution is fine for
me.

Why?

This way we will be able to set other environment variables for whole session if we will need it. We could add xdg-menu-prefix to flashback settings, but is that really needed?

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Alberts Muktupāvels