vala-panel-appmenu VS budgie-desktop

Hi, I'm stuck trying to install the XFCE global menu. I tried every different coprs things to no avail, I even tried building it from the github repo, but it gets stuck at "meson.build:77:0: ERROR: Dependency "libxfce4panel-2.0" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake" (libxfce4panel is installed) and setting the prefix to /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel like the guide told me didn't work

it seems like appmenu-gtk-module was a subproject of vala and has been long abandoned... or at least nothing has changed for over 2 years... https://github.com/rilian-la-te/vala-panel-appmenu/tree/master/subprojects/appmenu-gtk-module

Also remember this part: https://github.com/rilian-la-te/vala-panel-appmenu/blob/master/subprojects/appmenu-gtk-module/README.md

vala-panel-appmenu: https://github.com/rilian-la-te/vala-panel-appmenu

For Chromium-based browsers, the guide suggests also installing libdbusmenu-glib, libdbusmenu-gtk3, libdbusmenu-gtk2. appmenu-qt4 is no longer available and Qt5 will work out of the box.

Check out https://github.com/rilian-la-te/vala-panel-appmenu - that's what I use Depends on your distro, there's a really nice AUR package, but yeah the Readme has instructions for different distros. I don't know if there are ready made packages for other distros or if you have to compile from source.

You have to install this for the global menu to work in xfce.

Theoretically you can try here: https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/issues ... But it might be Arch specific thing...

On my main machine I still use Gnome. Never the less, I recommend everyone to have a look at Budgie. This is what Gnome could have been. Actually, given that the Gnome Foundation has way more ressources available compared to the Solus developers: It could have even been way better than that.

Url at repo description seems to be incorrect · Issue #1806 · solus-project/budgie-desktop

- Github page of budgie-desktop: https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop

Here is the error report: https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/issues/2031

not 100% sure if this isnt an arch issue but reg budgie issues, best placed to report https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop

I tried it but went back to Xfce because this feature isn't implemented yet. I might give Budgie 11 a try when they release it (no release estimate exists, AFAIK). Other than that it is really nice, unobtrusive and a good combination of traditional and modern approaches.

DE: Budgie