Re: Unable to customise applications menu

[Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com>]

On Mon, 2005-07-03 at 08:36 +0200, Joona I Palaste wrote:
> I am running Gnome 2.6 on a Fedora Core 3 system. I am unable to
> customise the applications menu in the panel. Every customisation
> option is grayed out and if I try to edit anything in Applications:///
> in Nautilus, I get a message that the file is on a read-only disk.
> This happens even if I'm running as root. As far as I know, my system
> does not include any read-only disks. Where exactly is the information
> about the applications stored? Is there some kind of configuration
> setting that I need to change to make Gnome see the disk as editable?
> Thanks!
> 

To be honest with you, I personally have never even bothered to use
gnome to configure my menus. If the app didn't properly make its own
entry I just added one via command line. 

I'm pretty sure others will agree that gnome menu editing sucked; but
one of the reasons why it has sucked is that its not a high priority. If
an app didn't install a proper desktop file in the proper place, then
its the app thats broken. Why should *I* think about menu items? :)

Now that gnome and kde will be using FD.o standard desktop files, the
problem will only get better, and I suspect any future linux app worth
having will consider it natural install a desktop file.

Wrt to the actual question as asked, gnome has a new library for
handling the new FD.o standard, and there are at least two hackers
working on a usable menu editor:

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

Cheers,
Ryan