Re: Migration Paths for New Modules

["Travis Watkins" <alleykat gmail com>]

On 7/15/06, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> Alacarte has probably the easiest job here,
> but I want to make sure that people will get
> Alacarte whenever they ask for a menu editor.
> A symlink in /usr/bin is probably sufficient.

As far as I know the only place gmenu-simple-editor is exposed in the
UI is the "Edit Menus" item in the menu applet context menu. Ubuntu
has a patch (attached) that makes this menu item call alacarte if it's
installed. What else would need to be done?

--
Travis Watkins
http://www.realistanew.com

diff -Nur gnome-panel-2.14.1/gnome-panel/panel-menu-bar.c gnome-panel-2.14.1.new/gnome-panel/panel-menu-bar.c
--- gnome-panel-2.14.1/gnome-panel/panel-menu-bar.c	2006-04-14 15:31:19.000000000 +0200
+++ gnome-panel-2.14.1.new/gnome-panel/panel-menu-bar.c	2006-04-14 15:31:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -469,10 +469,19 @@
 	} else if (!strcmp (callback_name, "edit")) {
 		GError *error = NULL;
 
-		panel_launch_desktop_file ("gmenu-simple-editor.desktop",
-					   "gmenu-simple-editor",
-					   screen,
-					   &error);
+		if (panel_is_program_in_path ("alacarte")) {
+			panel_launch_desktop_file ("alacarte.desktop",
+						   "alacarte",
+						   screen,
+						   &error);
+		}
+		else {
+			panel_launch_desktop_file ("gmenu-simple-editor.desktop",
+						   "gmenu-simple-editor",
+						   screen,
+						   &error);
+		}
+
 		if (error) {
 			panel_error_dialog (screen,
 					    "cannot_exec_gmenu-simple-editor", TRUE,
diff -Nur gnome-panel-2.14.1/gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c gnome-panel-2.14.1.new/gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c
--- gnome-panel-2.14.1/gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c	2006-04-14 15:31:19.000000000 +0200
+++ gnome-panel-2.14.1.new/gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c	2006-04-14 15:31:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -1004,10 +1004,19 @@
 	} else if (!strcmp (callback_name, "edit")) {
                 GError *error = NULL;
 
-		panel_launch_desktop_file ("gmenu-simple-editor.desktop",
-					   "gmenu-simple-editor",
-					   screen,
-					   &error);
+		if (panel_is_program_in_path ("alacarte")) {
+			panel_launch_desktop_file ("alacarte.desktop",
+						   "alacarte",
+						   screen,
+						   &error);
+		}
+		else {
+			panel_launch_desktop_file ("gmenu-simple-editor.desktop",
+						   "gmenu-simple-editor",
+						   screen,
+						   &error);
+		}
+
                 if (error) {
                         panel_error_dialog (screen,
                                             "cannot_exec_gmenu-simple-editor", TRUE,