Unable to edit applications menu in Gnome

Edward Muller edwardam at interlix.com
Tue Oct 7 16:10:33 UTC 2003


What is the proper way to edit the gnome menus in Fedora?

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 02:34, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 03:49, James Drabb wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 21:46, James Drabb wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 17:13, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > With the standard Fedora install it's not possible to edit Applications 
> > > > Menu. I found on the internet how to do it. They consider it as a "bug" 
> > > > in RH 9.0, which is still present in Fedora.
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.wse.jhu.edu/newtnotes/main_file.php/sysadmin/55
> > > > 
> > > > Is there any reason to make the menu not editable??
> > > > 
> > > > I would prefer to have the menu editable and preferably an icon in the 
> > > > menu, which opens nautilus at applications:///
> > > > 
> > > > Jaap
> > > 
> > > This is still pretty buggy for me : (
> > > I added a new link to my home folder at the root of the menu and
> > > gnome-panel locked up and needed a killall.  I then added a new
> > > directory and the nautilus window that was at applications:// froze up 
> > > : (
> > > 
> > > Jim Drabb
> > 
> > Hmm, I just tried to "edit launcher" from the right click menu and
> > nautilus sucked up 99.x% of my cpu.  I had to ctrl+alt+f1 to console and
> > kill it from top.  I don't think this feature is ready yet : )
> 
> The reason we disable editable vfolder is exactly this. It's broken.
> 
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