Onboard Keyboard should have a menu entry for Xubuntu/Xfce

... or NotShowIn=GNOME;Unity; if you still want to enforce your menu declutter policy without impacting derivatives.

I support this request, I have a wireless keyboard and sometimes when its batery dies I still need to use the keyboard.

Obviously I can Not launch it from a terminal, that would be really silly, and not having it on the menus its quite annoying.

the Ubuntu patch that removed it from the menu is not present in the Oneiric package and onboard does appear now in the unity applications lens, so I expect this to work just fine in xubuntu Oneiric

Why you expect that? Onboard has appeared in the development release menus for at least two releases now. Unfortunately, the Ubuntu patch gets applied right before the final images, which makes that invalid. This time, please change the desktop file before final images, so that at least Xubuntu can have this valuable application in the menu, where it should always be.

This bug was fixed in the package onboard - 0.97.0-0ubuntu1

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onboard (0.97.0-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * Request for sponsorship: New release available (LP: #932855)
  * debian/control:
      Build-Depends: add libdconf-dev
      Depends: add gir1.2-wnck-3.0, libdconf0
      Recommends: add gir1.2-atspi-2.0
  * debian/copyright: add year 2012
  * debian/patches: update onboard-defaults.conf file
  * Add improved scanning feature to osk extension
    - scanning works with all official layouts
    - different scan modes are available
    - support for 1, 2, 3 and 5 switches
    - devices can be configured to be used exclusively for scanning
  * Port osk extension to GTK3
  * Add auto-show with auto-move feature; requires at-spi2 (LP: #443986)
    - confirm activation of at-spi2 with a dialog
    - automatically move Onboard when it covers the input focus
    - no auto-move when the keyboard is manually shown
    - logging of focused at-spi accessibles through 'onboard -ddebug'
  * Hide and show Onboard with a middle click on the indicator icon
  * Add new icons for appindicator matching Ambiance and Radiance themes
  * Add lockdown options for kiosk mode (LP: #879944)
  * Silently embed into gnome-screen-saver if no app did so (LP: #857813)
  * Make Onboard aware of screen rotation (LP: 911821)
  * Protect against accidental resize/move of Onboard's windows (LP: #893644)
  * Add option to disable resize handles (LP: #930373)
  * Allow resizing with all mouse buttons
  * Show menu entry for Xubuntu/Xfce (LP: #833862)
  * Extend force-to-top mode to the Icon Palette
  * Allow /user/local/share/onboard as an alternative installation directory
  * Support starting onboard-settings in cli with non default language
  * Don't start more than one instance under normal usage
  * Fix onboard-settings crash in get_selected_layout_filename (LP: #913484)
  * Add double click and drag click also for non dwelling mode
  * Adjust category of the onboard-settings.desktop file (LP: #833873)
  * Add more modifier behaviors: cycle (default), dblclick, latch, lock
  * Add option to always show on visible workspace (LP: #803875)
  * Add Alan Bell's themes: Typist, ModelM
  * Add HighContrast, HighContrastInverse and LowContrast themes
  * Option to track GTK theme to have Onboard switch to matching theme
  * Make the colors of the icon of the Icon Palette adapt to the theme
  * Calculate corner radius of the Icon Palette based on it's size
  * Let Onboard draw itself the icon of Icon Palette instead of loading it
  * Make a newly created customized theme the active one
  * Stop selecting the default theme when resetting or deleting a theme
  * Remove overrides for font setting and key label from themes
  * Add format information to schemas, themes and colors files
  * Convert sticky-key-behavior and system-theme-associations to dicts
  * Show touch handles when activating drag click in dwell mode
  * Show touch handles on long press of the move button
  * Save window geometry 5 seconds after it was changed (LP: #819971)
  * Add option to keep aspect ratio of keyboard window
  * Update and fix system defaults example file
  * Give the AppIndic...