Re: Getting Red Hat menus visible in Garnome??

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

GNOME lives and dies on its dot files, which is why I directed you
towards testing GARNOME with a clean user account.

Do *not* launch the stock Redhat GNOME environment in your new account. 
Doing so will alter the GNOME dot files.


-Joseph

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On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 09:33, Paul Smith wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> %% "Joseph E. Sacco, PhD" <joseph_sacco comcast net> writes:
> 
>   jesp> Welcome to the new menu specification:
> 
>   jesp>         http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmenu_2dspec
> 
> Yes... but I was hoping someone had worked out a conversion between old
> and new menus...
> 
>   jesp> Try this simple exercise:
>   jesp> * create a new user account
>   jesp> The new user home directory should contain the minimal set of dot files
>   jesp> for our OS. In particular, the new user home directory should have *no*
>   jesp> gnome dot files.
> 
>   jesp> * start up GARNOME.
> 
>   jesp> * explore the menus
> 
>   jesp> If all goes well, you should see not only all of your old redhat/kde
>   jesp> entries but also all of the new GARNOME entries.
> 
> Hm.  OK, I'll try that.  But, here is what I did:
> 
>   * Had my previous user account, which was pretty vanilla Red Hat 8
>     Gnome without much user customization (I don't use that account
>     much).
> 
>   * Started up Garnome.  Many of my settings WERE preserved (more or
>     less).  I got a folder containing the "old" contents of my desktop.
> 
>   * The menus contained ONLY Garnome stuff, and NO items from my
>     previous desktop.
> 
> So, then I moved all the ~/.gnome* directories somewhere else (forgot
> .gconf though :-/), and I:
> 
>   * Logged in using the native Red Hat Gnome environment, so I got a
>     straight desktop.
> 
>   * Started up Garnome.
> 
>   * Again the menus contained only Garnome stuff.
> 
> You're saying that if I created a user with no Gnome setup, and ran
> Garnome first thing, it would import all those Red Hat 8 menus?  I'll
> give that a try and see what happens.
> 
>   jesp> * Now read the menu spec to learn how to craft a menu list
>   jesp>   exclusion file.
> 
> Heh, if I had anything to exclude I'd be most of the way there! :-).
> 
> Thanks for the note, I'll try it...
> 
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