[TriLUG] Editing menus in Gnome 2

[Chris Knowles]

That was me again Jeremy...

Thanks.  That answers my questions.  You continue to be an almost
Carnes-ian resource.

CJK

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 21:23, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Good evening,
> 
> Someone asked on TriLUG's IRC channel (#trilug on irc.trilug.org) about
> this, but I can't remember who.  So I figured I'd post it here in case
> others are interested, too.  This is a posting from another mailing list
> about editing menus in Gnome 2 (the version included in Mandrake 9 and
> Red Hat 8).
> 
> From: 	Ryan Heimbuch <Ryan(at)dawson.edu>
> To: 	k12osn(at)redhat.com
> Subject: 	RE: [K12OSN] K12LTSP - 1 Nic
> Date: 	24 Oct 2002 15:06:56 -0700
> 
> In Gnome2 the menus use the 'gnome-vfs' abstraction library and
> 'vFolders'. The new tech is pretty cool, but menu editing tools didn't
> make it into the first release of Gnome2 or RedHat 8. 
> 
> Menus are generated by using a bunch of '.desktop' link files and
> grouped according to a XML description called a 'vFolder'. There is some
> documentation on how to do this in a vanilla Gnome2 install, but Red Hat
> modified (hacked might be a better word) the locations of the various
> vFolder and configuration files. It makes it a pain to work with,
> especially if you're trying to wrap your mind around the new menu system
> at the same time.
> 
> Until a GUI menu editor comes out you'll have to edit the ".desktop"
> files in a text editor to add or move apps in the existing menus. To
> change the actual menu structure you need to edit the appropriate
> vFolder files. 
> 
> Under RH 8 the main .desktop files seem to be stored in
> '/usr/share/applications'. 
> 
> The system-wide vFolders seem to be stored in
> '/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/'
> 
> Hope that doesn't scare you too much ;)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
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