Errors / help editing menus in Fedora

[Davor Herga]

> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 11:42:37 -0800
> From: "Adam L. Klein" <alklein at integraonline.com>
> To: Fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Errors / help editing menus in Fedora
> Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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> Greetings all,
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> I'm trying to add a couple of applications to my menus and not having
> any success.  I am running the default WM and Gnome/KDE environment.
> After reading the built-in help which says use Nautilus, select "Go ->
> Start Here" and then select the menu to edit (I'm choosing
> "Applications" then "Internet") and select "Create launcher"
> 
> I do this (I've tried it as me - regular user) and root (which, I
> assume but I'm not sure) edits the system-wide menus and get nothing.
> No linker menu, no prompts of any kind.  If I try to create a new
> folder, I get "Error "Unsupported operation" creating new folder."
> 
> Not having a menu shortcut isn't going to kill me, but I'd like it (I
> just installed Mozilla Thunderbird and Firebird - love 'em).
> 
> Adam Klein
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> Adam L. Klein
> <alklein at integraonline.com>
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Hi!

I had the same problem, and I got the solution from Michael Knepher.
Here it is:

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Nautilus is the intended tool for editing menus in gnome, but it's 
turned off by default. To enable menu editing with nautilus, go to 
/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules and replace default-modules.conf with 
default-modules.conf.with-menu-editing.

Then, as a normal user, go to start-here:/// in nautilus, and start 
moving/adding program launchers. You can also edit the menu from the 
menu: right-click on a menu item and choose from the various options 
found there.

I'm not sure what bugs remain to be ironed out for it be turned on by 
default, but it seems to work well enough on my system.


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It is also worth mentioning, that I lost the start-here:///,
so I have to add and remove items in the menu.



Here is also link about this, which I got from Paul Vandenberg:

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Hi,

See this page, near the bottom, for an explanation of how to turn on
menu editing in GNOME. The volders such as start-here:/// don't work
with menu editing turned on. I guess that's why Red Hat turned it off
by default. I use the menu for everything, so it doesn't bother me. To
do actual changes, you right click on the menu item to be changed.

http://people.ecsc.co.uk/~matt/repository.html

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ENjoY!

Davor.