garcon - menu library
Garcon is an implementation of the freedesktop.org compliant menu specification. It is based on GLib/GIO and aims at covering the entire specification except for legacy menus. It was started as a complete rewrite of the former Xfce menu library called libxfce4menu, which, in contrast to garcon, was lacking menu merging features essential for loading menus modified with menu editors.
Introduction
Garcon covers almost every part of the menu specification except for legacy menus and a few XML attributes. In contrast to libxfce4menu, it can also load menus modified with menu editors such as Alacarte as menu merging is now supported.
Required Packages
Debugging Support
garcon currently supports three different levels of debugging support, which can be setup using the configure flag `–enable-debug` (check the output of `configure –help`):
| Argument | Description |
| ——- | ———– |
| `yes` | This is the default for Git snapshot builds. It adds all kinds of checks to the code, and is therefore likely to run slower. Use this for development of garcon and locating bugs in garcon. |
| `minimum` | This is the default for release builds. This is the recommended behaviour. |
| `no` | Disables all sanity checks. Don't use this unless you know exactly what you do. |
Latest Release
- garcon 4.21.0 released (2025/03/23 07:58)garcon 4.21.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/garcon/4.21/garcon-4.21.0.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/garcon/4.21/garcon-4.21.0.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/garcon/4.21/garcon-4.21.0.tar.xz?sha256 What is garcon? =============== Garcon is an implementation of the freedesktop.org menu specification replacing the former Xfce menu library libxfce4menu. It is based on GLib/GIO only and aims at covering the entire specification except for legacy menus. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/garcon/start Release notes for 4.21.0 ======================== [Please note that this is a development release.] - build: Automate copyright year management - build: Define xfce4 min version >= 4.18 - Replace deprecated exo with libxfce4ui 4.21.0 - meson-build: Add tests option - meson-build: Use SPDX license expression - meson-build: Update debug/optimization flag management - autotools-build: Fix EXTRA_DIST redefinition - Add meson build - Set up GNU symbol visibility - garcon: Remove include guard from private header - garcon: Don't install garcon-marshal.h - Translation Updates: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Welsh
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