RE: [GNOME-my]Gnome Keyboard Lockup

["Ow Mun Heng" <ow mun heng wdc com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chee Bin HOH [mailto:cbhoh ivest48 nat mimos my]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:28 AM
> To: Ow Mun Heng
> Cc: cbhoh mimos my; gnome-my-list gnome org
> Subject: RE: [GNOME-my]Gnome Keyboard Lockup
> 
> 
> So, the read-only setting is because of the library
> libvfolder-desktop-old.so which used for virtual file system, 
> obviously
> RH has made change to it.
> 
> applications:                   libvfolder-desktop-old.so
> all-applications:               libvfolder-desktop-old.so
> all-preferences:                libvfolder-desktop-old.so
> favorites:                      libdesktop.so
> 
> 
> So, `favorites` is editable, but `applications`, 
> `all-applications` and
> all-preferences` are NOT.


I don't get it.. I thought it was the settings in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules
Where does the libvfolder-desktop-old.so comes in?



> 
> >       For any user you want to have the right to edit their 
> menu, you also
> > need to do this as the user:
> > 
> >       cd ~/.gnome2/vfolders
> >       cp /etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu 
> applications.vfolder-info
> >     * When gnome-panel is restarted (via logout/login or 
> kill) the user will
> > be able to see the changes they have made to their menu.
> 
> NOT, all menu editing by using 'Create Launcher' will be per user
> setting, so it will automatically be edited in the
> applications.vfolder-info under ${HOME}/.gnome2/vfolders. You 
> don't need
> to copy the /etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu to there.
> 
> In fact, by copying /etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu to there,
> the user has lost the system-wide changes made by desktop 
> administrator,
> so if a desktop administrator adds a new software to the system, then
> the software adds itself to /etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu,
> but the user will lost the menu items, since the
> ${HOME}/.gnome2/vfolders/applications.vfolder-info in their overrides
> it.

Hmm... I get what you mean.. which would explain how come when I created the
new user, the menu system was really different from my
old-user-before-the-lockup happened. Oh well... I better archive this email
so that I will know what happened the next time it happens again.(touch
wood)


> 
> The nicely way is to add <Parent>URL</Parent> to
> ${HOME}/.gnome2/vfolders/applications.vfolder-info to include the
> system-wide setting.
> 

Which is...??