Re: Problem editing menus

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:26:33PM +0200, Marcus Libäck wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 22:15, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:44:52PM -0500, Geoffrey Mitchell wrote:
> > > I am using Gnome 2.2.0 with RedHat 9.  When I try to copy a launcher
> > > into a menu, I get 'Error "Unsupported operation" while copying file.' 
> > > I get a similar message if I try to create a launcher ina menu, delete a
> > > launcher from a menu, etc.  Any ideas what the problem is?
> > 
> > Editing menus is disabled in RHL 9 because it's insanely buggy. 
> > You can move the file
> > /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf.with-menu-editing
> > over default-modules.conf if you want to enable menu editing 
> > as in GNOME upstream, but don't complain when your nautilus crashes,
> > the menus don't update without restarting the panel, you lose 
> > your menus, etc.
> > 
> > In short, it's disabled for a reason but feel free to enable it if
> > it works for you. ;-) Just don't report bugs to me.
> > 
> > Havoc
> 
> When I edit my Gnome 2 menus I simply right click on the menu and
> add/delete the item i want. Works quite well and I don't have to restart
> the panel to see the changes.
> 

It works for some people apparently, but it definitely generates a lot
of bug reports. ;-) It probably depends on exactly what you do when
editing and how you do it.

Havoc