Cannot edit Gnome application menu

tommy_fila · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 450 Location: Phoenix, AZ

I'm experiencing some very strange behavior with my Gnome menus. I tried adding my own custom launcher to the Application menu, but I can't figure out how to do it. I read on the forums that you can edit the menu by accessing applications:/// in nautilus, but when I try that, I get an error saying "applications:///" is not a valid location". I found some other posts saying that you can edit the menu directly by right-clicking on it and then adding a launcher. However, when I right-click, I don't see any options for adding a custom launcher.

There must be an easy way to do this, but it seems like I just can't figure it out.

Thanks for the help.
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crudh · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject:

GNOME 2.10 didn't have a feature for editing the menus since it adopted the new freedesktop.org standard and they didn't have time to enable menu editing. But you could install a menu editor like SMEG that conforms to the standard and can edit all menus from different DE:s/WM:s that use the standard. There are other editors too, check out gnomefiles.org.

GNOME 2.12 has a simple menu editor if you right click on the "Applications" panel text. But it can only disable stuff from the menu. Hopefully it will advance until GNOME 2.14.

Otherwise you have to create a file in /usr/share/applications. All the menu items have files there so you could look at them for help.

tommy_fila · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 450 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Wow. That's surprising. The menu's cannot be edited without using a hack. What are the Gnome devs thinking?

Thanks anyways for clarifying this point.
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Devport · Guru Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 361

crudh · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:15 am Post subject:

Devport · Guru Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 361

Yes - I clicked everywhere, including the textbutton "application" - no menu editor bin in gnome-panel. Could someone tell me the name of the binary and to which package it belongs ?

( euqery b binaryname_with_path )

And has anybody using gentoo's ~x86 GNOME a menueditor - or is it only part of steev's / bmg's overlay ?

crudh · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:55 am Post subject:

I am using GNOME 2.12 from Gentoo ~x86, no overlay, and I have the menu editor. I don't know the name of the binary. Will check when I get home, if I remember

Devport · Guru Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 361

That would be nice. Thanks. I checked the configure output of gnome-panel, but no menu-editor mentioned. Thus I don't know to which package it belongs - otherwise I could check the respictive build log.