On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 15:14 -0500, Ian Murdock wrote: > 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.
Correction: That's ~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/. Hmm. Customizing the menus as a normal user creates a ~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications.vfolder-info (which presumably overrides the defaults in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications-all-users.vfolder-info.) I haven't tried this yet, but perhaps one workaround is to put the customized applications menu in /etc/skel/.gnome2/vfolders, which would then be copied to each user's home directory, rather than trying to change the system defaults. It's not pretty, but neither is diverting a bajillion .desktop files. Also, it may not deal with the preferences stuff, which I want to change too. I'll play around a bit with this and report my experiences here. -- 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
