GNOME Menu Editing

[Paul Vandenberg]

> Hi,
>
> Actual menu editing through the GNOME VFS menu method is not going to
> be
> turned on since there are still lots of problems with it.  If there is
> going to be menu editing, then it will be with, as Michael suggests
> here,
> an app to edit the XML files directly.
>
> Dan
>
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Michael Knepher wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 13:11 -0400, Paul Vandenberg wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Can anyone tell me if GNOME menu editing will be enabled in FC3? I
>> am
>> > really getting tired of editing .desktop files.
>>
>> It doesn't look like it, and it seems to be a low priority for the
>> GNOME
>> folks. I'm surprised some enterprising hacker hasn't put together a
>> front-end for manipulating the xml menu files. It shouldn't take
>> much
>> more than spit and baling wire ...
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Well...I've never really done GUI programming. I earn my bread and
butter doing mainframe programming. Perhaps, it is time to get my
hands dirty and take a stab at it. How hard would it be to create a,
"system-config-menu"? Could I use one of the other system-config tools
as a model?

Paul
Thanks...Paul