[K12OSN] Edit Gnome menu

[Daniel Hedblom]

Hi!

In Redhat gnome menu editing is turned off becuase of a tendency to
corrupt the menus if you alter them from nautilus. You can turn menu
editing on again by:
 su -
<give root password>
cd /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules
cp default-modules.conf default-modules.conf-no-menu-editing
cp default-modules.conf.with-menu-editing default-modules.conf

And then go to applications-all-users:/// and edit but be very careful
because you can end up having to hand edit to correct errors in
/etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications-menu.

Cheers!

PS. If you really want to edit menus use KDE wich has and excellent menu
editor if you just right click on the start menu. DS.

> Found a site saying:
> In nautilus go to url
>
> Applications:///
>
> So I did...and voila...can see all the menus etc, but when I attempt to
> delete any of the items
> I receive an error "unsupported operation" while attempting to delete
> applications...mic.desktop
> (merely attempting to get rid of non-educational games that suck up tons
> of resources)
>
> --Huck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
> Behalf Of bskahan at etria.com
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:27 PM
> To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Edit Gnome menu
>
>
> The gnome menu system is built with gnome-vfs, and generated from the
> *.desktop files in /usr/share/applications.  To edit it log in as root,
> or run nautilus as root.
>
> go the url
> applications-all-users:///
>
> This will give you a nautilus view of the applications menu.  You can
> rearrange it by drag-n-drop.  I haven't checked gnome 2.4 (what's in
> k12ltsp 4) but it works for gnome 2.6.  Gnome 2.6 has a number of new
> "lock down" features that are extremely useful in a lab environment.
> Now if gconf would only get group level control it would be gold.
>
> hth,
> -Brian
>
> --
> Brian P. Skahan                          e: bskahan at etria.com
> Partner, Desktop Applications Lead       p: 410-837-3992
> http://www.etria.com                     c: 410-370-7706
>
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