Feature Request: add Vala Panel menu generator

[rilian-la-te]

https://gitlab.com/vala-panel-project/vala-panel have a customizable XML-based menu) Can you add a generator to generate such XML files?)

Vala Panel exists in popular distribution repos:

1. https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/vala-panel
2. https://packages.debian.org/buster/vala-panel
3. https://software.opensuse.org/package/vala-panel

[gapan]

Sure! Can you provide an example of such an XML file?

[rilian-la-te]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<interface>
  <menu id="vala-panel-menu">
    <section id="vala-panel-internal-applications">
    </section>
    <submenu id="local-mounts">
          <attribute name="label" translatable="yes">Переход</attribute>
        <item>
          <attribute name="label" translatable="yes">Computer</attribute>
          <attribute name="icon">computer</attribute>
          <attribute name="action">app.launch-uri</attribute>
          <attribute name="target">computer:///</attribute>
          <attribute name="x-valapanel-dnd-source" type="b">true</attribute>
        </item>
        <item>
          <attribute name="label" translatable="yes">Trash</attribute>
          <attribute name="icon">user-trash</attribute>
          <attribute name="action">app.launch-uri</attribute>
          <attribute name="target">trash:///</attribute>
          <attribute name="x-valapanel-dnd-source" type="b">true</attribute>
        </item>
    </submenu>
    <submenu id="network-mounts">
          <attribute name="label" translatable="yes">Дополнительно</attribute>
        <item>
          <attribute name="label" translatable="yes">Network</attribute>
          <attribute name="icon">network-workgroup</attribute>
          <attribute name="action">app.launch-uri</attribute>
          <attribute name="target">network:///</attribute>
          <attribute name="x-valapanel-dnd-source" type="b">true</attribute>
        </item>
        <item>
          <attribute name="label" translatable="yes">Connect to server...</attribute>
          <attribute name="icon">network-server</attribute>
          <attribute name="action">app.launch-id</attribute>
          <attribute name="target">nautilus-connect-server.desktop</attribute>
          <attribute name="x-valapanel-dnd-source" type="b">true</attribute>
        </item>
        <item>
          <attribute name="label" translatable="yes">Use XTerm to launch MC</attribute>
          <attribute name="icon">utilities-terminal</attribute>
          <attribute name="action">app.launch-command</attribute>
          <attribute name="target">xterm -e mc</attribute>
          <attribute name="x-valapanel-dnd-source" type="b">true</attribute>
        </item>
    </submenu>
    <section id="vala-panel-internal-settings">
    </section>
    <section>
        <item>
          <attribute name="label" translatable="yes">Run</attribute>
          <attribute name="icon">system-run</attribute>
          <attribute name="action">app.run</attribute>
        </item>
    </section>
    <section>
        <item>
          <attribute name="label" translatable="yes">Log Out...</attribute>
          <attribute name="icon">system-log-out</attribute>
          <attribute name="action">app.logout</attribute>
        </item>
        <item>
          <attribute name="label" translatable="yes">Shut down...</attribute>
          <attribute name="icon">system-shutdown</attribute>
          <attribute name="action">app.shutdown</attribute>
        </item>
    </section>
  </menu>
</interface>

This is small example.
Menu is capable for launch desktop files (name in "action" should be "app.launch-id"), show arbitrary files with default program ("app.launch-uri" action), and launch arbitrary commands ("app.launch-command" action).

Topmost entry should be called "vala-panel-menu" in id.

[gapan]

So I've finally installed vala-panel to try it out. But I can see that a menu is already included, so I'm not sure what an xdgmenumaker generated menu would offer. It would be mostly identical to that.