GNOME lives and dies on its dot files, which is why I directed you towards testing GARNOME with a clean user account.
Do *not* launch the stock Redhat GNOME environment in your new account. Doing so will alter the GNOME dot files. -Joseph ======================================================================= On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 09:33, Paul Smith wrote: > 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. -- joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list
