i searched the list and only saw the following on menu alterations.
is it true there is no easy way to add a launcher to a menu?
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The file you want (for changing the structure) is
/etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu
>From reading the gnome lists, they say that the .info files you were
looking
at are used, so I don't know if RH took some kind of liberties with the menu
system or what... the .menu file is an XML file defining the structure, and
the queries that determine where a icon should be placed based on its
Categories= line in the .desktop file for the application link.
As far as re-arranging the icons themselves, i.e. getting rid of the
"Extra's" menu altogether, I used a perl script to modify all the .desktop
files containing X-Red-Hat-Extra, to instead contain X-Red-Hat-Base. There
were a few that were categorized as X-Red-Hat-Extras instead, and also 2 or
3 without a categories= line in their .desktop file. Just a quick copy and
paste got these where they needed to be.
Also be wary of the <include> and <exclude> statements forcing certain items
to be shown or hidden even after you modify their .desktop files.
Here is where I have found .desktop files stashed that go on the menu:
/etc/X11/applnk
/etc/X11/starthere
/usr/share/applications
/usr/share/desktop-menu-patches
/usr/share/control-center-2.0/capplets
/usr/share/applets (RHN-applet...)
/usr/share/control-center
/var/lib/kde/Applications
(there may be more...)
If anyone has a better way to do this, I would welcome any suggestions...
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Message: 12
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:11:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: psyche mailing list <psyche-list@redhat.com>
Subject: how to view the config files and edit the GNOME menus
Reply-To: psyche-list@redhat.com
i'm probably missing the obvious, but where are the config files
that control the main (redhat) menu layout in GNOME? someone
already suggested the top-level config directory
/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders
which seemed promising at the time but the two files there don't
*seem* to represent the total layout of those menus and
submenus.
so where are the config files, and is there a graphical way
to configure those entries and their properties? perhaps i
just haven't far enough into the GNOME docs to have run into
that part yet.
rday
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thanks in advance for any help, and if your not able to help but read
this far hoping to help, thank you just as much! :-)
dw
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