Re: How to change to new menu format on upgrade?

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Removing the ~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications.vfolder-info did the trick!
Most of my non-RedHat menu entries were still preserved, except for
codeweavers' stuff which is dead anyway for now.

Thanks!

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 12:26, Michael Knepher wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 02:35, Kent Pirkle wrote:
> > After upgrading from 8.0->9 my menus have retained the 8.0 styles (one
> > "Extras" menu instead of multiple "More" menus). How can I change to the
> > new style without wiping out custom or 3rd party menu changes
> > (games,etc)?
> 
> The menu structure is defined by an xml file. The default system-level
> menu is /etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu. A custom user-level
> menu would be found at ~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications.vfolder-info. If
> the second file exists, it will be used to create the menu, rather than
> the applications.menu file. If all your modifications are to that file,
> back it up, copy applications.menu to your vfolders directory as
> applications.vfolder-info and sync up any changes that were made. 
> 
> If the system-level menu was changed and not overwritten during the
> upgrade, you'll need to get the new applications.menu file out of the
> redhat-menus package. Quickest way may be to move the current
> applications.menu file and reinstall redhat-menus, then compare the two
> files and restore whatever changes you want to preserve.
> 
> For some more info on how the menus are built and how to change them
> under 8.0/9, see http://www.bluethingy.com/linux/rh8menu.html
> 
> 
> -- 
> Michael Knepher <limbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
-- 
Kent Pirkle <kpirkle@xxxxxxxxxx>





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