Gnome Question: How do you unlock the gnome menus for editing???

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

On my system, the 2.9.91 menus appear to be locked and cannot be edited
using nautilus. For example, any attempt by "root" to add a folder to
the Applications menu causes nautilus to crash.  I do not have this
problem with garnome-2.8.2.1.

This may have something to do with the fact that the 2.8.2.1 menus
contain *only* gnome things installed under /opt/garnome, whereas the
2.9.91 menus pick up both gnome things installed under /opt/garnome and
GNOME/YDL/KDE things installed under /usr. YDL-4 installs gnome-2.6.0
under /usr. 

The menus under YDL-4.0 are locked for reasons I do not understand.
So..., maybe the problem is not with 2.9.91 but rests instead with the
YDL-4 installation of gnome-2.6.

YDL-4 installs its vfolders under /usr/share gnome. I checked the
permissions on /usr/share/gnome/vfolders.  Things look OK. The
directory, which is owned by root.root, has permissions 755.  The files
within the directory are also owned by root.root and have permissions
644, which should prevent *only* non-root users from modifying the
menus.

Under YDL-4 the panel(s) are not locked.  I am able to add/remove/modify
panels. Exploring the wonders of gnome and gconf, I see that there is a
key/value pair that controls panel modification,

	/apps/panel/global/lock_down      [false]

I have not found an equivalent key/value pair for menus.

Thoughts???


-Joseph

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