Comment 6 for bug 688156

An idea that comes to mind is for Cardapio's developers to work together with those of other menu projects (e.g. GnoMenu) and the Ayatana project to define a menu standard in the same vein as Ayatana's indicator standard. My understanding is that the indicator standard presently enjoys cross-platform support (in Gnome, XFCE and KDE), or am I wrong?

Another option would be to adapt Cardapio to the existing indicator standard. However menu applets such as Cardapio and GnoMenu go well beyond the remit of indicators, and indicators themselves lack several key features (e.g. a right-click menu) and have a far from stellar selection of UI elements. Your involvement could spark some improvements on that front however.