When enabling the 'Show as tree' button in the whisker menu properties there isnt any visual difference between it and 'show as list'.
If there aren't any subcategories, there won't be any visual difference. This option is what used to be called "show menu hierarchy", and it shows each category's subfolders as expandable items instead of merging them into a single sorted list.
Do you have a screenshot of this so I can see how it looks, or know of app i can install to see it in action as I presently cant see it on both my xfce installations.
Created attachment 9784 Menu showing tree This is an example of what it looks like to have a tree. The default Xfce menu file doesn't do this, I used the KDE menu file to actually have subcategories.
Thanks. If default xfce doesn't do this, then who would this feature be geared towards? Is whisker used on other DEs?
There are distros that don't use the default Xfce applications menu (and users can use the hidden setting to change the menu file like I did in my example), and I know that using Wine creates subcategories even in Xfce. Whisker Menu is only for Xfce. Basically, anything that creates a branch-off menu in the regular Xfce application menu will create a subcategory in Whisker Menu.
Thanks for the clarification and for the great work.
I was assuming that show tree view might have a look similar to kde's menu, in which you'd see the categories and when you click on them, they expand and show the entries below it, similar to how tree view in thunar looks. http://cloud.addictivetips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/kde-4-application-menu.jpg