Re: customizing applications menu

[Luca Sangemi <lsangemi aliceposta it>]

Ok! I've learned how to apply a patch to a src rpm; i 've modified the
spec file, adding the patch in the list of the patches. Then, 
#rpmbuild -ba gnome-panel.spec done it all. 
I've obtained three packages (in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS), 
 - gnome-panel-2.8.1-3.i386.rpm
 - gnome-panel-debuginfo-2.8.1-3.i386.rpm
 - gnome-panel-devel-2.8.1-3.i386.rpm
I've installed them (forcing, i've already got the 2.8.1-3 version
installed) , and in the gconf editor i can see the "enable menu stripe"
option.I've checked it, restarted GNOME... But... it doesn't work. And
the menu now have a strange look (some horizontal strips, repeated for
all the length of the menu). So I back to the standard version.
Anyway... I think i can survive without the strip, but , IMHO , i think
it's a good idea to include it in the next release of gnome-panel, for
two reasons : every customer can customize the distribution, and - it
gives a better appearance to the desktop (it's only eye-candy-ware, i
know...).

Thanks for your help.

Il giorno ven, 17-12-2004 alle 02:50 -0500, Bryan Clark ha scritto:
> On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 16:28 +0100, Luca Sangemi wrote:
> > Thank you! Unfortunately, I don't know how to apply this patch. Should i
> > use " patch -pN file.diff "  ? Then , should i recompile from sources?
> > If yes, i think i can't, because i have an rpm based installation of
> > GNOME. I'm sorry but this should be the first time i apply a patch to
> > something (i started to use gnu/linux just one year ago).
> 
> Oh, sorry for the lack of reply.  Yes, "patch -p0 -i file.diff" would
> probably do it, you might need to test (patch --dry-run -p1 -i
> file.diff" for different values of -p.  Then you would recompile that
> package from sources, yes.
> 
> You could do this with a src rpm but it will take a little learning.
> 
> This site gives an overview of adding a patch to a src rpm
> http://www.peacecomputers.com/sony_vaio/usb.html
> 
> I just googled for "applying patch to src rpm" and that was the first
> result.  Once you've done this (patched src rpm, built rpm, installed
> rpm, logout/login) you should have your own panel with the menu stripe.
> 
> Cheers,
> ~ Bryan
> 
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