Re: Who keeps messing with my Menu drawer???

[Kim Carter <aaj15 dial pipex com>]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 01:28:25 Daniel Lyddy wrote:
> Matt wrote:
> > 
> > Daniel Lyddy wrote:
> > 
> > | Daniel Lyddy wrote:
> > | >
> > | > Some process or script keeps coming by roughly once a day and
> > | > overwriting my menu with some ugly default.  I don't know whether it's
> > | > something in GNOME itself or whether it's something installed with the
> > | > distro (Mandrake 7.1).  Either way, it's Redmond-like behavior at its
> > | > worst and it has no place in the Open Source movement.
> > |
> > | I have finally figured out the culprit, quite by accident.  The rpms I
> > | use come from Mandrake, and many of them have the following lines in
> > | their RPM spec files:
> > |
> > | %post
> > | %{update_menus}
> > |
> > | %postun
> > | %{clean_menus}
> > 

<Huge Snip>

I also find the standard layout of the menu very poor, but my 'solution' which
may be applicable was to use the fact that these 'updates' only affect the 
'Programs' menu, not the 'Favourites' (Aaargh windowsisms!) ie the User Menu. 
In my case I set up the User Menu as I wish, hide the Programs Menu and copy 
the User Menu for all new users. This way the updates are still present
in the Program menu if you wish to check for something new, but the 'default' 
is the sorted out menu.

HTH 

Kim