xfce4: default menu not editable by user

Bug #2929 reported by Dave Cahill
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xfce4 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Jani Monoses

Bug Description

The default menu associated with the xfce4-menu button in the panel is located here:

/etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml

This file is not editable by the menu editor due to permissions.

In xfce4 the default menu is usually ~/.config/desktop/menu.xml which of course is user editable.

Note that the menu editor also points to the home directory location by default, so there is a mismatch between the default panel menu and the default menu editor menu.

Hope that makes sense.

Dave Cahill (cahilld)
Changed in xfce4:
assignee: nobody → jani
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Jani Monoses (jani) wrote :

that is normal, as the menu in /etc is not supposed to be edited, rather the one in the user's home dir takes precedendce. So if you want to be able to edit the menu in /etc it is not a bug to be denied, it is normal behaviour.
Please reopen the bug if it's something else you are trying to do.

Changed in xfce4:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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