Adding options to the Walker_Nav_Menu_Edit walker

Hi There!

I’ve set up a custom plugin to allow my user to edit each
li’s background color from the Menu edit area. It adds a farbtastic color picker to each menu item, by using the wp_edit_nav_menu_walker to replace the Walker_Nav_Menu_Edit walker with a custom one. I copied out the default walker from core, copied it to a new custom walker, and made my *small* change to get the color picker to show.

This works, and everyone is happy.

But shouldn’t there be a way to add a custom option to the Walker_Nav_Menu_Edit walker without overriding the whole thing? So my plugin is working, but what if I wanted to make another change to the edit walker from another plugin – one plugin’s change would cancel out the other, right?

I’m just wondering if there’s a reason for this? Or an opportunity to improve the Walker_Nav_Menu_Edit to be more customizable?

thanks a bunch!!!

Bryan