As per ml discussion: "when file icons are enabled, show the desktop-file menu (i.e., the "Desktop" submenu when you right click on an icon) on right click on the wallpaper, and then provide a hook to embed the normal xfce applications menu in a submenu of that."
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I would like the current behavior no to change if no file launchers are used.
Ok, this is done in svn trunk. Unfortunately it required a huge amount of code changes to do properly, so this won't be backported to 4.4.
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