vala-panel-appmenu VS Joplin

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.

I've had great success with using Joplin for this, with Syncthing as a sync backend. Works well across OSes; I use it on Linux, macOS, Windows and Android.

https://joplinapp.org/

The tools to manipulate SQL aren't that bad, no.

But rather than having a self explanatory markdown & flat file, now I have to start learning about the schema & making specific tools (in my preferred language) for manipulating Joplin's schema.

Suddenly I'm digging through 20 different technic specs to decode what data is where, how it works, and what I can do to it. Want to edit history? This is the best help you'll get, pray it's adequately technical to expedite you to your purpose: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/readme/dev/spec...

As I began with, I struggle to imagine anything that generates anywhere near as much user agency as flat files and markdown. Having boring common data & systems lets me apply portable skills I already have, rather than having to skill up in some particular product's own ecosystem.

Joplin is a good open source option too, feels more like the original Evernote in terms of UI/UX https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/

Joplin, an open source, extendable, Markdown-based hierarchical note-taking app: https://joplinapp.org/

It lets you choose a synchronization backend, offers applications for every major desktop and mobile OS (also has a terminal version). You can create notebooks and subnotebooks to organize your notes. You can also add tags for better search experience. I created notebooks for specific domains (work-related, home improvement, etc.) and also keep a "temp" for quick notes and W.I.P. snippets.

Its only con that it uses Electron on desktop which causes relatively slow start of the application.

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