I'd like to edit the Applications menu on my Suse 9.3 Gnome desktop but can't figure out how to do it. Is there an application to do it (on 9.3 - not the new gnome menu editor, thanks)? Alternatively, where are the files? I've clicked, grepped, RTFM, googled etc but haven't found anything. I expect it's right under my nose :~/ Thanks, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 22 December 2006 09:38, Dave Howorth wrote:
I'd like to edit the Applications menu on my Suse 9.3 Gnome desktop but can't figure out how to do it.
Is there an application to do it (on 9.3 - not the new gnome menu editor, thanks)? Alternatively, where are the files?
I've clicked, grepped, RTFM, googled etc but haven't found anything. I expect it's right under my nose :~/
Hi Dave, Are you running the 'stock' 9.3 GNOME setup or the 'supplementary' branch? I'm working in my 'daily' 10.0 system and am extra busy, today, or I'd boot to my 9.3 GNOME desktop to see if it refreshes my memory. I seem to recall it being a hassle to uncover ;-) *but* I also have a vague recollection of it being fairly simple once discerned. Weren't the menu systems in KDE and GNOME (and the other DEs) in the process of being brought under a single system or standard circa 9.3 to ease administration? (Heck! I've forgotten the acronym!!) If you edit something in your KDE menu (using the menu editor in the YaST/KDE Control Center editor) isn't that change reflected in your GNOME menu the next time you log in (after restarting X & gdm)? Or was that dream I was having back then? ;-) regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 11:00 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Friday 22 December 2006 09:38, Dave Howorth wrote:
I'd like to edit the Applications menu on my Suse 9.3 Gnome desktop but can't figure out how to do it.
Is there an application to do it (on 9.3 - not the new gnome menu editor, thanks)? Alternatively, where are the files?
I've clicked, grepped, RTFM, googled etc but haven't found anything. I expect it's right under my nose :~/
Hi Carl,
Are you running the 'stock' 9.3 GNOME setup or the 'supplementary' branch?
I don't know what these are? So I'd guess 'stock'.
I also have a vague recollection of it being fairly simple once discerned.
I have that same suspicion, but I haven't discerned it yet :)
Weren't the menu systems in KDE and GNOME (and the other DEs) in the process of being brought under a single system or standard circa 9.3 to ease administration? (Heck! I've forgotten the acronym!!)
Don't know, I'm afraid. 'Single standard' has a bit of a hollow ring in the [U|Li]nux world!
If you edit something in your KDE menu (using the menu editor in the YaST/KDE Control Center editor)
I don't use KDE. I looked through the Applications menu on the desktop but didn't find anything to edit the menu and I looked through YaST but only found the Gnome Control Center, which AFAIK doesn't let me edit menus. Do you know the name of the program you're thinking of so I could start it from the command line, or even check if it's installed? I don't even know whether these settings are system-wide or per-user (I'd hope the latter :) but so far I haven't found the appropriate config files in either /etc or my home directory. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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I'd like to edit the Applications menu on my Suse 9.3 Gnome desktop but can't figure out how to do it. ... I looked through the Applications menu on the desktop but didn't find anything to edit the menu and I looked through YaST but only found the Gnome Control Center, which AFAIK doesn't let me edit menus. Do you know the name of the program you're thinking of so I could start it from the command line, or even check if it's installed?
I don't even know whether these settings are system-wide or per-user (I'd hope the latter :) but so far I haven't found the appropriate config files in either /etc or my home directory.
I've found some hints that Nautilus is used to edit the menus, which themselves seem to be part of gnome-panel. sadly, I don't normally use Nautilus (find and grep -r usually work well for me :) so I'm reduced to RTFM. I've found the GNOME 2.8 Desktop User Guide on my system (though it looks like gnome itself is 2.10). In Chapter 7 - "Nautilus File Manager" - there's a section called "Navigating Your Computer" with a topic "Open special URI locations" that appears promising. There's Table 7.7. "Special URI Locations" that lists likely looking options, but it doesn't work! For example, it lists fonts:/// and themes:/// and when I open those, I see the appropriate lists. But if I try to open the ones that seem relevant - applications:///, preferences:///, start-here:/// or system-settings:/// - Nautilus says things like: "start-here:///" is not a valid location. Please check the spelling and try again. Does anybody more familiar with Nautilus know how to get around this? Or of some documentation that describes what is different between the version of Gnome shipped with SUSE 9.3 and the documentation that was supplied? Thanks, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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