Calum Benson wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 21:46 +1200, Morgan Read wrote:
> 
>> At first glance this seemed to achieve the desired result.  Except for
>> my menu customisations, so:
>> - What's the process to re-create a custom menu configuration in a fresh
>> account - is it possible via gconftool-2/gconf-editor?
> 
> In recent versions of GNOME, at least, menu customisations are stored in
> ~/.local/share, so presumably you should be able just to copy that
> across.

Thanks for coming back to me on this.

Your suggestions seems very simple and straight forward... but, doesn't
seem to have produced any noticeable change to my new "test" gnome
environment.  My commands are copied below, very very straight forward -
any ideas what else might need doing to give effect to this? It's weird,
as if nothing at all had happened.

This seems to have moved OT, perhaps there's a better forum - or off list?

Thanks again,
Morgan.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mkdir /home/test/.local/share/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cp -r /home/morgan/.local/share/*
/home/test/.local/share/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls /home/morgan/.local/share/ applications
desktop-directories  icons  mime
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# chown -R test: /home/test/.local/share/*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /home/morgan/.local/share/*
  File: `/home/morgan/.local/share/applications'
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 655311      Links: 3
Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: (  500/  morgan)   Gid: (  500/  morgan)
Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
Modify: 2007-05-24 15:53:41.000000000 +1200
Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
  File: `/home/morgan/.local/share/desktop-directories'
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 655289      Links: 2
Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: (  500/  morgan)   Gid: (  500/  morgan)
Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
Modify: 2007-05-16 18:30:20.000000000 +1200
Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
  File: `/home/morgan/.local/share/icons'
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 655354      Links: 2
Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: (  500/  morgan)   Gid: (  500/  morgan)
Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
Modify: 2007-02-04 07:34:22.000000000 +1300
Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
  File: `/home/morgan/.local/share/mime'
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 655264      Links: 4
Access: (0700/drwx------)  Uid: (  500/  morgan)   Gid: (  500/  morgan)
Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
Modify: 2006-10-28 15:42:47.000000000 +1300
Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /home/test/.local/share/*
  File: `/home/test/.local/share/applications'
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211787     Links: 3
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
Modify: 2007-06-19 09:59:45.000000000 +1200
Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
  File: `/home/test/.local/share/desktop-directories'
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211824     Links: 2
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
Modify: 2007-06-19 09:59:45.000000000 +1200
Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
  File: `/home/test/.local/share/icons'
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211838     Links: 2
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
Modify: 2007-06-19 09:59:45.000000000 +1200
Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
  File: `/home/test/.local/share/mime'
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211842     Links: 4
Access: (0700/drwx------)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
Modify: 2007-06-19 09:59:45.000000000 +1200
Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# chown -R test: /home/test/.local/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /home/test/.local/
  File: `/home/test/.local/'
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211681     Links: 3
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
Access: 2007-06-19 10:13:57.000000000 +1200
Modify: 2007-06-19 09:56:36.000000000 +1200
Change: 2007-06-19 10:13:57.000000000 +1200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /home/test/.local/share/
  File: `/home/test/.local/share/'
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211781     Links: 6
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
Access: 2007-06-19 10:13:57.000000000 +1200
Modify: 2007-06-19 09:59:45.000000000 +1200
Change: 2007-06-19 10:13:57.000000000 +1200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# stat /home/test/.local/
  File: `/home/test/.local/'
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211681     Links: 3
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
Access: 2007-06-19 10:30:23.000000000 +1200
Modify: 2007-06-19 09:56:36.000000000 +1200
Change: 2007-06-19 10:13:57.000000000 +1200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#



-- 
Morgan Read
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<mailto:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz>

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