Gnome Question: How do you unlock the gnome menus for editing???

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

The Gnome-2.6 menus appear to be locked and cannot be edited using
nautilus. For example, any attempt by "root" to add a folder to the
Applications menu causes nautilus to crash. 

I checked the permissions on /usr/share/gnome/vfolders.  Things look OK.
The directory, which is owned by root.root, has permissions 755.  The
files within the directory are also owned by root.root and have
permissions 644, which should prevent *only* non-root users from
modifying the menus.

The panel(s) are not locked.  I am able to add/remove/modify panels. 
Exploring the wonders of gnome and gconf, I see that there is is
key/value pair that controls panel modification,

	/apps/panel/global/lock_down      [false]

I have not found an equivalent key/value pair for menus.

Thoughts???


-Joseph

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