Re: [gnome-flashback] GNOME Panel improvements

[Balló György <ballogyor gmail com>]

2014-10-16 19:29 GMT+02:00 Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>:
> > >  2. Use custom menu layout. The official GNOME menu layout adds some
> > > additional categories, which may confuse users. Reduce them in our
> > > custom menu layout file.
> >
> >
> > It is not that simple as you think...
> >
> > We patched ubuntu in similar way. Only custom menu file was added to
> > gnome-menu package and gnome-panel.desktop file was edited to set
> > XDG_MENU_PREFIX. This is only workaround and still does not solve problem
> > fully. That is way I created this patch -
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732548.
> >
> > At least one problem is that Alacarte (menu editing) program will use menu
> > file XDG_MENU_PREFIX "applications.menu". That means users trying to edit
> > menu will see different menu from what is available in gnome-panel.
> >
> > To properly fix this bug we need above patch accepted in gnome-session or
> > other way to set XDG_MENU_PREFIX for whole session.
> >
> > I have not tried, but there might be a way to change XDG_MENU_PREFIX
> > without above patch:
> >
> > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-session/tree/gnome-session/org.gnome.SessionManager.xml#n8
> >
> > But then we need application that will be started in initialization phase
> > and set up XDG_MENU_PREFIX to "gnome-flashback-". gnome-session set it to
> > "gnome-". If this would work then I would probably do this:
> >
> > 1) Create new application gnome-flashback-init that will be run in
> > initialization phase. At least for now its only task would be to set
> > XDG_MENU_PREFIX.
> > 2) I would add our custom menu in gnome-flashback module as it was made
> > for this - place where to add all missing things for our session. It should
> > be named gnome-flashback-applications.menu
> > 3) Update gnome-panel to use XDG_MENU_PREFIX "applications.menu". This way
> > file name would not be hardcoded.
> >
> > I will try this after sending this mail.
>
>
> This should be fixed in gnome-panel wip/gnome-3.10+ and gnome-flashback
> master branches. Can you test?

It works, thanks! I would prefer if the XDG_MENU_PREFIX would be
configurable in gnome-session, but the current solution is fine for
me.

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György Balló
Arch Linux Trusted User