Errors / help editing menus in Fedora

Thu Jan 8 17:41:59 UTC 2004

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Davor Herga wrote:

| Greetings all,
|
| 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

|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:

|----------------------

|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

|----------------------

|ENjoY!

|Davor.

Davor,

Thanks for the reply.  I tried it and unfortunately now have no
Applications menus.

Does anyone have a suggestion for how to restore the Applications
menus (even to defaults, though I would like to be able to modify them)?

Thanks,

Adam Klein
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Adam L. Klein
<alklein at integraonline.com>

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