Re: Custom menus in Gnome 2

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:52, cosc097 wrote:
> We're having problems with customizing the panel for our department's 
> Linux installation (300+ machines)...
> 
> Under Red Hat 7.2 with GNOME 1.4.0, we were able to able to add 
> customized menus to the panel. We set these up as a 'Normal Menu' and 
> pointed the menu path to a custom directory hierarchy in 
> /usr/share/gnome/ to populate the menu. The advantage of this is that 
> although users may destroy their panel, they cannot destroy the contents 
> of the menu itself and adding or replacing a menu is simple.
> 
> With Red Hat 8.0, we get GNOME 2.0.? which appears to have had this 
> functionality removed. We can use Drawers to produce a custom 'menu' 
> (although we prefer the Menu appearance with text and small icons to the 
> Drawer default large icons with Tool tips ) but we cannot see how to 
> have a central repository for them, finding it necessary to have the 
> whole Drawer setup in each user's account.

1. edit I think /etc/redhat-menus/applications.menu
2. Alter the line

 <!-- Load the GNOME2 applications from our prefix -->
  <ItemDir>/usr/share/applications/</ItemDir>

to reflect where your .desktop files are

should work



> Ultimately what we would like is to be able to still have customized 
> Menus as with GNOME 1.4.0, but we would be satisfied with a Drawer that 
> loaded its contents from a central repository, rather than from the 
> user's own .gconf directory.
> 
> Does anybody know how to do this or has the functionality been removed 
> entirely? Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> 
> Blair Wilson
> cosc097 cosc canterbury ac nz
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Canterbury
> Christchurch
> New Zealand
> 
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