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. > 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. :-( -- Ian Murdock 317-578-8882 (office) http://www.progeny.com/ http://ianmurdock.com/ "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of." --Ogden Nash
