On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 03:54:52PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le mardi 05 octobre 2004 � 15:24 +0200, Bill Allombert a �crit : > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:45:17AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
[to clarify: bug #259400 is about fix the gnome-panel menu-method to work correctly for non-root users. This involve creating a menu hierarchy somewhere which is picked by GNOME at start up.] > > Browsing applications:/// does not show the Debian menu, however. > > Why it is so ? > > The distribution menu is not a vfolder but a special part of the code. > It's made with desktop files in /var/lib/gnome/Debian/. Is there a way to have GNOME look for the Debian menu in the user home directory and revert to /var/lib/gnome/Debian/ if it is not found ? > > I am must say I am a bit confused by the way menus are handled. > > The GNOME applications menu uses desktop files installed. For the moment > this part of code doesn't respect the freedesktop specifications (at > least in the upstream code, some distributions have made work on this). > Upstreams are working on this and GNOME 2.10 will probably use the > freedesktop specs. I was expecting that, thanks for the clarification. > > It seems to be a modified version of XDG menu for most part > > but the Debian menu being implement by another scheme. > > What's different ? Debian menu is not implemented as a vfolder. > > This should probably be fixed given than Debian menu handle XDG menu > > quit nicely with the menu-xdg package. > > What would you like to change/fix exactly ? If Debian menu was implemented as a vfolder, I could just change userprefix to userprefix=".gnome2/vfolders/applications/Debian/" in the gnome-panel menu-method and update-menus run by a user would work. Since it is not the case, I need another mechanism to achieve that. Of course, you might come with a better idea. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
