Edit: 06/09/2012
Updated to version 2.6.9
The inbuilt editor is now disabled if there is no locale with UFT-8 support.
Added a reset to default for the inbuilt editors color and font settings.
Please test, as before it should be ok, I've tested numerous times.
Here is my latest attempt with xmenumaker, this version has a number of new features and a renewed text editor built with yad.
To begin with this version relies on locale settings to enable the text editor to function correctly.
if you generally don't use .UFT-8 then you will have to enable it once then you can disable it again,
this will be listed in /usr/lib/locale.
Typing
locale -a in the terminal will list the locale types, there should be two for your locale one having .UFT-8
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# locale -a
C
en_AU
en_AU.utf8
en_US
POSIX
This is needed else the editor won't be able save all character sets and will possibly break the desktop files.
features of the text editor are the ability to change background and text color as well as the font.
I tried a different approach with this by saving the configuration settings back to xmenumaker thus no separate config file, this appears to work fine.
If you wish you can opt to use the system default text editor and bypass the yad editor by selecting the checkbox.
Added a undo button, this will allow for either the delete or edit's last action to be restored.
On the side menu are buttons to copy to desktop, hide or show a menu entry and add or remove from the Favorites menu.
To use these features a custom-xfce-applications.menu is used, which can be placed anywhere that you wish.
To switch to the custom menu,
right-click the Saluki icon on the taskbar and select Properties, Use custom menu file,
then navigate to the custom-xfce-applications.menu where ever you have placed it, I keep mine in /root/.config
Extract the two .directory files, place them in /usr/share/desktop-directories, one for a Development menu the other Favorites menu.
At the moment there are no icons in the Desktop icon switcher allocated from these menu entries,
so I've selcted them from the hicolor theme.
The main Gui as also changed slightly, with error messages for all main entries, the categories now has a full list of entries to choose from, new layout cleaner look.
I will call this more of a version for testing to get some feedback on it's functionality and any bugs, though it should be bug free.
I would suggest at the lest to backup your applications directory.
Or try this with a new save file, I'd hate for anyone to wreck their installation.
At present there is no list for the hidden menu entries, I will add a button to list them in the next version.