Dynamically building panel applet popup menu

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

My panel applet problem (see previous posts) from yet another angle:

What I want to do is build a menu in a dynamic fashion, as opposed to from 
a static XML string or file. The exact contents of the menu depends on a 
config file. (The config is *not* a direct description of the menu, but 
details on the menu can be derived from it.) In GNOME 1 this was straight 
forward as the menu was built one item at a time anyway, but with GNOME-2 
it turns out to be quite tricky. I'm trying to incrementally build an XML 
string, then call panel_applet_setup_menu() as usual, but it doesn't work 
out right as I can't find a way to distinguish the menu items from each 
other in my callback. I could use an unique verb for each item, but then 
would have to build the BonoboUIVerb list dynamically, too, and the code 
would be starting to look quite horrible... Is there a better way to go 
about this?

- Toralf