Editing menus revisited

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

The game continues...

I am building gnome-2.9.91.1 in background  as we speak.  Hope springs
eternal...

-Joseph

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On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:07, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:17:47 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.
> <joseph_sacco@> wrote:
> > Thanks for the offer. My interest would be purely academic at this point
> > as I am looking to move on to a later version of GNOME.
> > 
> > Not being able to easily edit a menu is an aggravation, but not a show
> > stopper. Since I [sort of] know how the menu system works,  I can add
> > and remove things manually by altering the contents of the appropriate
> > directories.
> > 
> > I believe that TSS is in the process of testing the current stable
> > version of GNOME, which is 2.8.2.1. releasing 2.8.2.1, even with locked
> > menus, would be a good thing since it will update the GNOME support
> > libraries.
> 
> Message 1:
> Am Freitag, den 28.01.2005, 16:57 -0500 schrieb WirelessMike:
> > Frankly, I'm stumped.  I've searched through directories to try to find
> > a harder way, but I have found nothing.  I've seen both the methods
> > mentioned here work in warty on gnome 2.8, but neither works on hoary
> > with gnome 2.9.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> in gnome 2.9 the menu editing was redesigned to the new
> freedesktop.org standard. for this there is no gui based menu editing
> functionallity yet. currently you will have to add launchers for the
> menu by editing .desktop files in:
> 
> ~/.local/share/applications/
> 
> to get an example file to modify, copy one from
> /usr/share/applications to this directory.
> 
> Message 2:
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 16.02.2005, 16:48 +0100 schrieb Simon Santoro:
> > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/menuediting.html
> > it really reads like it's not very complex. just .desktop files with
> > attributes in it. if only i had time to do some python in my
> > (inexistant) spare time...
> 
> erm, that is exactly what has been dropped..... you should look here:
> 
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmenu_2dspec
> 
> for the new standard.
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