<big>K</big>ickshaw yemera ibice bikurikira bya XML n'amazina y'ibiranga, agaciro k'ibiranga, n'ibirimo bijyanye n'ibice:

<tt><b>Igice:</b>				<b>Amazina y'ibiranga:</b>
menu           		id, label, icon, execute
separator      		label
item           		label, icon
↳action        		name
 ↳prompt       		<i>ntigikoreshwa</i>
 ↳command      		<i>ntigikoreshwa</i>
 ↳startupnotify		<i>ntigikoreshwa</i>
  ↳enabled     		<i>ntigikoreshwa</i>
  ↳icon        		<i>ntigikoreshwa</i>
  ↳name        		<i>ntigikoreshwa</i>
  ↳wmclass     		<i>ntigikoreshwa</i>

					<b>Agaciro k'ibiranga:</b>
action         		Execute, Exit, Reconfigure,
               		Restart, SessionLogout

					<b>Ibirimo:</b>
enabled        		yes, no</tt>

Indangamuntu z'ibikubiyemo zigizwe n'igicenteruro cy'ubusa zemewe, ariko nk'indi ndangamuntu y'ibikubiyemo zose zishobora kugaragara rimwe gusa mu bikubiyemo.

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Ibikubiyemo bikurikira birahwanye kandi byombi byemewe na Openbox na Kickshaw.

<tt><b>(1)</b> &lt;openbox_menu&gt;

      &lt;menu id="menu1" label="Menu1"&gt;
        &lt;item label="item"/&gt;
      &lt;/menu&gt;

      &lt;menu id="root-menu"&gt;
        &lt;menu id="menu1"/&gt;
      &lt;/menu&gt;

    &lt;/openbox_menu&gt;</tt>

<tt><b>(2)</b> &lt;openbox_menu&gt;

      &lt;menu id="root-menu"&gt;
        &lt;menu id="menu1" label="Menu1"&gt;
          &lt;item label="item"/&gt;
        &lt;/menu&gt;
      &lt;/menu&gt;

    &lt;/openbox_menu&gt;</tt>

Ibikubiyemo buri gihe byerekerezwa muri Kickshaw nk'uko byagaragara muri Openbox, bityo icya kabiri mu ngero ebyiri kiragera ku buryo bwa WYSIWYG. Ikibi ni uko ku bikubiyemo binini, ibi bishobora gutuma dosiye y'ibikubiyemo igaragara nk'itasobanura neza. Kubw'impamvu iyo, gisanzweho Kickshaw buri gihe ibika ibikubiyemo mu buryo bwa mbere (ibi bishobora guhindurwa mu mahitamo). Igihe ubika dosiye, porogaramu ikoresha tabi ku matangiragika gisanzweho, ariko mu gusoma dosiye, kumenya niba ayo matangiragika yakorwe n'imyanya cyangwa tabi ntibyingenzi, kimwe n'umwanya w'ubusa wose.

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Ibikubiyemo bishobora kugira ibiranga by'ibikubiyemo bigivuguruza, nk'uko bigaragara mu rugero rukurikira:

<tt>&lt;openbox_menu&gt;

  &lt;menu id="menu1" label="outside" icon="out.jpg" execute="out" /&gt;

  &lt;menu id="root-menu"&gt;
    &lt;menu id="menu1" label="inside" icon="in.jpg" execute="in" /&gt;
  &lt;/menu&gt;

&lt;/openbox_menu&gt;</tt>

Muri ici gihe, Kickshaw ikurikira urugero rwa Openbox kandi ikaba yerekana agaciro k'ikiranga cya agashushondanga kuva imbere mu bikubiyemo by'imizi, mu gihe yerekana label n'agaciro k'ikiranga rya execute kuva hanze y'ibikubiyemo by'imizi.
