vala-panel-appmenu VS kepubify

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.

The big utility of WASM for me, like OP hints at, is bringing things that would be infeasible to port to the web to it, like, say https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ and other conversion tools (eg ffmpeg-wasm). Much preferable to downloading something or uploading a file to some random person’s server

But now just before I did the whole NickelMenu hack I realized that if I download for example 10 epubs and put them on a folder in Dropbox with my phone the kobo will pick them up easily but not perfectly since they will be in epub format and not kepub.... So in the end why risk and spend so much time installing NickelMenu? If in the end probably I will probably still need to go to https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ to convert my epubs to Kobo Epubs one by one to then put them in Dropbox..

If you don't want to use Calibre at all, you can also convert epub to kepub using https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ and then sideload the kepub file you get manually on your Kobo

Kobos are good. You can load them with your own files and they support a nice range of formats. Before loading EPUBs, convert them¹ for better performance². Old models keep getting software updates for years, and those can improve performance.

¹ https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/

² Though you don’t have to, unconverted EPUBs load fine.

I use kepubify. It works well for me

Yes, you need to run kepubifiy first https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ and put in dropbox folder the file you get after conversion :)

Convert them to kepub https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/

Kepubify (pgaskin.net)

Pick whatever file you want and use kepubify to generate the kepub