[K12OSN] Definitive guide to editing gnome menus?

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

Personally, I do like KDE.  I let my kids use any window manager on the 
system that they wish, be it GNOME, KDE, XFce, or IceWM.  The kids have 
gravitated naturally toward GNOME and KDE, with an apparent slight 
preference for KDE.  I actually don't restrict very much the 
applications that they're allowed to run, and I've discovered that they 
end up (surprise!) simply doing their work.

Sure, I've had the occasional kid who's blown up his desktop, but 
usually they discover workarounds (and learn something in the process, 
BTW, about computers generally--never a bad thing), and my solution is 
to save their data, their entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, blow 
away their home directories, put their data back, recreate their userID 
and password with the original /etc/shadow entries, and boom, they're 
back in business w/ a default desktop.  Takes me about ten minutes.  
Since they've just lost their 31337 h4xz to their desktop and have to 
take time to recreate them, they tend not to repeat what they did to 
mess things up before.  :-)

And yes, they brag about how since they're "using Linux," they're so 
much better than their Windows-using "|_00z34z".  Ain't kids a riot?  :-D

--TP

Debbie Schiel wrote:

> So how about KDE? What do people think of KDE as a window/menu 
> manager? Or should I just stick with Icewm?
>
> Pete wrote:
>
>> Debbie Schiel wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Bimal, and thanks for your tips. I gave them a go (step by step, 
>>> no errors produced) but they have had no effect.
>>> You say that it works for redhat linux 9.0 with gnome2.
>>> I am using Fedora Core 2 with whatever came as default with k12ltsp 
>>> 4.1.0 - is that the same as your setup? If it is then I must be 
>>> doing something wrong and I will try it again, otherwise it means 
>>> that this method doesn't work with K12ltsp 4.1.0.
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>>
>>> Debbie
>>
>>
>>
>> AFAIK gnome menu editing is broke in gnome 2.6 (2.4 LTSP 4.0 works I 
>> did it!)
>> I tried the same with gnome 2.6 but NO joy :-(
>>
>> I ended up by giving everybody the same restricted menu except when 
>> they belong to 'root' group.
>> The 'stupid' but effective thing I did...
>> making the .desktop files NOT readable by others
>> .desktop files can be found in /usr/share/applications (and other dir.)
>>
>> Pete
>>
>


-- 
_____________________
Do you GNU!? <http://www.gnu.org>
Be virus- and spam-free with Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). Check it 
out! <http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird>