edubuntu-menu-editor

[Marc Gariépy]

Hello Kees,

Can you send me your menu.tar.gz file of your menu
and /etc/desktop-profiles/*.listing please. 

It's supposed to work correctly for groups unless you fall into this
bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/menueditor/+bug/619226

Thanks

Marc

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 14:08 +0800, Kees wrote: 
> On 08/09/10 13:07, Joseph Hartman wrote:
> > I got it to work a while back. If I recall there are two apps to make it
> > happen. The first allows you to specify which menus and sub menus appear
> > for the user. Make your choices using the check boxes and save as the
> > menu as a tarball on the desktop. Then open the second app. This one
> > allows you to assign the tarball configuration to a specific group or
> > user. If memory serves there are three windows in the second app, the
> > left displays the users and or groups while the right side shows the
> > tarball and the bottom shows the pairings between the two. You must
> > first import the tarball. To do so right click in the blank space of the
> > right side window and select "import" or whatever. Browse to the desktop
> > and select the tarball to import it. If I recall you must change the
> > browser to look for "all files" before it will see the tarball. Once you
> > have imported the tarball into the second app, click and drag it from
> > the right side of the second app window onto the user/group in the left
> > side window. If this is done correctly then a new entry should show up
> > on the bottom window of the second app. Click file and save to save the
> > configuration and you should be ready to rock. I encountered a few bugs,
> > but for the most part it worked as advertised, although I only ever used
> > it for specific users, not groups. Let us know how it goes. Best
> > regards, -Joe
> 
> This exactly what I am doing and it does not seem to have any effect.
> 
> Maybe the problem is that I am assigning it to a group, but it seems to
> suggest that is what you can do.
> 
> Thank you for your help though.
> 
> Kees
> 
> (btw if you name the tarball <anything>.tar.gz it will see it
> immediately in the browser, any other extension and you need to select
> 'all files', even with .tgz)
> 
> > 
> > On Sep 7, 2010 9:30 PM, "Kees" <keesvonk at gmail.com
> > <mailto:keesvonk at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> I am trying to assign a menu structure to a group of users, using the
> >> 'menu-editor' and the 'edubuntu-menu-editor profile manager' but I must
> >> be doing something wrong here. I am doing the following"
> >>
> >> * New Edubuntu 10.04 install with LTSP according to:
> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/installLTSPlucid
> >> * Create new user (modelstudent)
> >> * Create new group (student) and assign modelstudent to it
> >> * Edit and save menu: StudentMenu.tar.gz
> >> * Assign Menu to group 'student'
> >>
> >> (at the point even tried rebooting, ltsp-update-*)
> >>
> >> * Log in on LTSP terminal, and just get the full menu
> >>
> >> How can I get the edited menu for all students in group 'student'? I
> >> have searched and googled a lot in the last few days, but the
> >> documentation on this seems extremely sparse.
> >>
> >> If anyone can help me that would be much appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Kees
> >>
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