How to trim menus (where has /usr/share/nautilus/ui/ gone?)

[garethl <garethl hmgcc gsi gov uk>]

Hello,

hope somebody can help... I am trying to remove various menus and menu 
items from the Nautilus (3.4.1) menu hierarchy, starting at the main 
menu bar. (Also, I am trying to remove most of the context menu items)

I know that this used to be possible, by modifying the various files 
located at /usr/share/nautilus/ui/
My default installation of Ubuntu 12.04 doesn't seem to have this 
directory, and I can't find any of the various old xml files (e.g. 
nautilus-navigation-window-ui.xml). I have tried recreating the original 
ui/directory and its contents, but I've had no success with this.

I have downloaded the nautilus source, and can see some suitable-looking 
xml files in the source tree, so presumably, I could always customize 
nautilus by changing these, and rebuilding? However, what I would really 
like to do is to define my customizations, to be applied at *runtime*.

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious?

Thanks,
Gareth

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