Gnome and Program menus

davecs · Guru Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 436 Location: Dagenham, GB

This sounds a really stupid question, especially as I can't find the answer on this site, I must be missing something obvious.

I tried updating GNOME that was hard enough (I had to unmerge bonobo and merge libbonobo and it took me some time to figure that out). When I ran it, most programs I use were missing from my start menu. I could not find a way of adding them.

It's so easy in KDE, very few things get left off, and those that do I can add easily.

The other thing is, is there a way in GNOME to spread out the cramped menus, and is there a more pleasant icon scheme (the HOME icon looks quite sinister, and does not change whichever icon scheme I select). I mean people praise GNOME's superior functionality, but I cannot see it, and it's UGLY!

HELP, someone...
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ecatmur · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 2:33 pm Post subject:

Right click on an existing menu item and hit Entire menu->Add new item to this menu. (Unfortunately, the current state of GTK precludes being able to right-click on a submenu and get a context menu pop up.)

I don't find the menus at all cramped. I use the Amaranth GTK theme with fonts of Sans 10, Sans 10, and Monospace 10 (they're the Bitstream Vera fonts; ideal for screen display). This is with a screen dpi of 105 (1600×1024 on a 19"). Here's rather out of date screenshot

I use the Amaranth icon theme, but there are plenty of other pretty themes. Wasp and Lush have rather nice Home icons. You can always get new icon themes from http://art.gnome.org if you don't like the defaults. Make sure to emerge gentoo-artwork.