On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:01, Joe Barnett wrote: > 1) what is the proper way to change menu items on a system-wide (at least as > the default) basis. For example, currently Evolution is in "office" but I'd > rather it be in "internet" and openoffice.org (unofficial .debs) apps are in > "other" but I'd rather they be in "office"... if i use nautilus to switch > these as root, it doesn't seem to change for all users... etc. I'd also like > to add system wide launchers into the menus for applications that do not > generate a default gnome2 menu launcher.
The correct way is to open applications-all-users:// in Nautilus.
Generally, launchers being in the wrong folder is a bug, and needs to be
fixed. I've submitted a patch to fix the OpenOffice.org launchers, you
may want to mail them as well to get this fix in the packages :)
> 2) when I do change menus, it doesn't apply until i kill and restart the
> panel
Fixed with the latest releases I believe.
> 3) gnome1 applications (to be specific: gcombust, and others I can't
> currently
> remember) sometimes generate faulty launchers that result in the following
> error:
> Can't Launch entry
> Details: Not a launchable item.
File bugs. Read the vFolder Standard from freedesktop.org, and install
desktop-file-utils to validate the .desktop files. Strangly enough,
gcombust works fine for me ;)
Ross
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