I use the KDE 'kmenuedit' program to edit my menu's. Just run it from the console. You can also add itself to the menu, so that you can use it later. (I did, to the root menu) Wolf |-----Original Message----- |From: Donald G Wilson Jr [mailto:wilson@warwick.net] |Sent: Friday, 29 November 2002 03:25 pm |To: psyche-list@redhat.com |Subject: menu editing | | |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? | |8><------------------------------------------------------------ |--------- |8>--------------------------- | |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... | | | |--__--__-- | |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 | | | | |--__--__-- | | | | |8><------------------------------------------------------------ |--------- |8>------------------------- | |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 ###################################################################### Attention: This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal www.marshalsoftware.com ###################################################################### -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
