Menus in Hoary/Gnome2.9

[Jerry Haltom]

It was my belief that Ubuntu simply used Gnome's code to make a kick ass
distribution, not that they were bound by every stupid thing Gnome did.
Witness the menus in Warty which are not standard 2.8 menus.

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 11:14 -0500, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> It wasn't Ubuntu's choice.  It was GNOME's choice.  That simple.
> 
> --tim
> 
> 
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:06:27 -0600, Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net> wrote:
> > Doesn't it seem a bit... mean... to drop an expected feature before
> > having a replacement in place? Doesn't seems like something I'd have
> > expected Ubuntu to do for a release. Doesn't seem like something Apple
> > would do. =)
> > 
> > On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 16:36 +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > > Le vendredi 21 janvier 2005 à 09:19 -0600, thephotoman a écrit :
> > > > Okay, I need to know something: is there a way to edit the Applications
> > > > menu from the panel in Gnome 2.9,
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > You can change the desktop files in /usr/share/applications or add some
> > > user desktop in ~/.local/share/applications. The Categories= line is
> > > used to determine the place of the entry in the menu, the desktop
> > > files/menu follow the freedesktop specifications.
> > >
> > >
> > > > is the inability for Nautilus to go to
> > > > applications:/// a bug, or do you intend to make it impossible to adjust
> > > > menu items in Gnome 2.10?
> > >
> > > applications:// was using the vfolder gnomevfs method which has been
> > > dropped in GNOME 2.9 for the new gnome-menus system. A menu editor need
> > > to be written but that will probably not happen for 2.10. There is
> > > nothing specific to the distribution here.
> > > You can also install menu and menu-xdg to get a Debian submenu with
> > > entries for all the applications installed.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Sebastien Bacher
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
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