gnome-menu-editor: first impressions

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

I have gnome-menu-editor-0.1 working on a PPC running YDL-4.0.1 and
garnome-2.10.0.1:

	http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-February/msg00425.html

* pulled down the two patches for gnome-menus-2.10.0
  [layout & libmenu] referenced above.

* manually applied the patches to gnome-menue-2.10.0, 

* rebuilt and re-installed gnome-menus-2.10.0,

* pulled down, built, and installed gnome-menu-editor-0.1


Discussion
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This application is useful, even in its infant state, because it can
include/exclude single menu items.  Current GNOME behavior is to install
*any* compatible menu it finds on a system, which leads to duplicate
entries when the system has more than one GNOME installation.

YDL-4.0.1 ships with GNOME-2.6 as well as KDE-3.3.2.  GNOME-2.10.0.1
finds and installs *all* compatible menus, which leads to annoying
duplication.  With gnome-menu-editor, the GNOME-2.6 entries can be
"excluded" from view as described in the Free Desktop menu spec:

  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmenu_2dspec


-Joseph

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