Re: Gnome menu customization best practices?
El 03/10/04, a les 15:14:24, Ian Murdock ens deleità amb les següents paraules:
> On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 20:38 +0200, Lluis wrote:
> > Another way to modify gnome's menus could be to edit files on
> > /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications-all-users/ (the WriteDir of
> > applications-all-users file), although the last time i checked this feature
> > it wasn't working... and got no documentation about it, so maybe it was
> > working but i didn't understand how to do it (should be checked again, maybe)
>
> FWIW, I too tried adding .desktop files
> to /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications-all-users/ and was unable to
> get them to show up (the changes either weren't visible or caused menu
> items to disappear entirely). Oddly enough, it seems to work for normal
> users--if you customize the menus using Nautilus (by going to
> applications:///, moving stuff around, renaming stuff, etc., it puts
> the changes in ~/.gnome/vfolders/applications/, and everything
> seems to work. So I'm not sure why the system-wide mechanism doesn't.
>
For what i remember from my last look at this, that directory was to put a
.vfolder-info to override the system one, but i might be wrong... :P
> > It's maybe a weird and not much beutiful work-around, but as far as i know,
> > the gnome menus don't provide the mechanisms for specialized menus that we
> > want to use (that is, they're not able to add or delete new "root" menus
> > without providing or editing the global applications-all-users.vfolder-info,
> > so the editing on that file has to be lessen to the minimum)
> >
> > About the "reordering" of existing menu entries, i don't see a clear
> > solution...
>
> That's been my experience as well. I was hoping someone would prove me
> wrong. :-(
>
well, as i see, i'm not the only with that same problem, so we could maybe
talk to the gnome people and ask if that's a misworking or a missing feature
read you,
Lluis
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