On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:47, MaC wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 00:07, Shawn wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 16:55, Jeff Bearer wrote: > > > It appears at first glance you can't edit the menu's in Shrike didn't a > > > menu editor make it into the release either? > > > > > > When I was in Raleigh for my RH401 class I was told by an un named RH > > > employee (spot) that it would definitely be in the next release after > > > 8.0. > > > > You can edit the menus by editing the menu files, however I don't think > > there's a menu editing program. > > This is a redhat thing, as most other distros (ok, slackware I know does > it) and also if you compile the gnome from tarballs, allow you to edit > the menus as a user, thus this will only effect you menus (unless you > are root, I suppose) > > Personally I don't see why they took it out, as this is one of the major > things missing IMHO, oh and a GUI for xrandr. > If I understand the issues correctly, RHL 8.0 and 9 are pushing the freedesktop.org standards, and the Gnome2 menu editing code breaks compatibility with KDE and is a bit of a mess to fix. You can find some posts on the Phoebe list from Havoc Pennington about the issue. For some tips on manually editing the menus, see http://www.bluethingy.com/linux/rh8menu.html > Mark -- Michael Knepher <limbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
