Hello, I am using BackBox on my laptop. It's a really nice OS and all, but I frankly hate XFCE. It's just odd. Is it possible to somehow convert the custom menu entries on XFCE that are put there by the BackBox developers to KDE Menu to be used under KDE?

What do these menu entries concern exactly?
Assuming XFCE uses the XDG menu specification, and the BackBox developers used it to make their changes to XFCE then the entries should show up under KDE.

The only other way that couldn't happen if they were using the XDG menu specification is if they marked them as OnlyShowIn=XFCE or similar.

bcooksley wrote:What do these menu entries concern exactly?
Assuming XFCE uses the XDG menu specification, and the BackBox developers used it to make their changes to XFCE then the entries should show up under KDE.

The only other way that couldn't happen if they were using the XDG menu specification is if they marked them as OnlyShowIn=XFCE or similar.

Thanks for your reply (:

Well, the XFCE menu and it's details are best explained here;

http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu

For example, /menus/xfce-applications.menu for a hypothetical Programming entry would be

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    <Menu>
        <Name>Random Menu Programming Tools</Name>
        <Directory>xfce-programming.directory</Directory>
        <Include>
            <Or>
                <Category>Subcategory Perl</Category>
                <Category>Subcategory Python</Category>
            </Or>
        </Include>
    </Menu>

Whereas my AwesomePerlProgrammingTool's desktop entryin ~/.local/share/applications would be

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[Desktop Entry]
Version=9.6
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=awesomeperlprogrammingtool
Icon=awesomeperlprogrammingtool
StartupNotify=false
Categories=Random Menu Programming Tools; Subcategory Perl ;
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
Name=AwesomePerlProgrammingTool
Comment=AwesomePerlProgrammingTool

I'm not sure how the KDE Menu works. But is there a way to convert this to KDE's menu structure? So my AwesomePerlProgrammingTool would be available under Random Menu Programming Tools's, Subcategory Perl without having so much editing (BackBox has over a 100 menu entries)

I'm not sure what you mean by;

The only other way that couldn't happen if they were using the XDG menu specification is if they marked them as OnlyShowIn=XFCE or similar.

so if I remove the "OnlyShowIn=XFCE" it would show up?

Thank you again (:

Yes, if you remove the OnlyShowIn=XFCE then it very well may show up. The *.desktop and menu files you have created are both those specified by the XDG specification, which KDE follows.

Whether KDE reads and follows xfce-applications.menu is another thing altogether however - the file to edit may be called kde-applications.menu instead..