Hi; %% "Joseph E. Sacco, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jesp> Welcome to the new menu specification: jesp> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmenu_2dspec Yes... but I was hoping someone had worked out a conversion between old and new menus... jesp> Try this simple exercise: jesp> * create a new user account jesp> The new user home directory should contain the minimal set of dot files jesp> for our OS. In particular, the new user home directory should have *no* jesp> gnome dot files. jesp> * start up GARNOME. jesp> * explore the menus jesp> If all goes well, you should see not only all of your old redhat/kde jesp> entries but also all of the new GARNOME entries. Hm. OK, I'll try that. But, here is what I did: * Had my previous user account, which was pretty vanilla Red Hat 8 Gnome without much user customization (I don't use that account much). * Started up Garnome. Many of my settings WERE preserved (more or less). I got a folder containing the "old" contents of my desktop. * The menus contained ONLY Garnome stuff, and NO items from my previous desktop. So, then I moved all the ~/.gnome* directories somewhere else (forgot .gconf though :-/), and I: * Logged in using the native Red Hat Gnome environment, so I got a straight desktop. * Started up Garnome. * Again the menus contained only Garnome stuff. You're saying that if I created a user with no Gnome setup, and ran Garnome first thing, it would import all those Red Hat 8 menus? I'll give that a try and see what happens. jesp> * Now read the menu spec to learn how to craft a menu list jesp> exclusion file. Heh, if I had anything to exclude I'd be most of the way there! :-). Thanks for the note, I'll try it... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list
