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

[Jeremiah McElroy <jeremiah mcelroy gmail com>]

I seem to recall there being a similar gconf setting for the
gnome-menus.  I'll double check when I get home, unless somebody posts
before then.


On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:47:58 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.
<joseph_sacco comcast net> wrote:
> 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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