When applying any changes to the gnome applications menu via alacarte
the file - applications.menu,
in the directory /home/user-name/.config/menus is modified (by alacarte) but no change to
the menu occurs.
(for example showing or hiding a menu item). To make this work correctly alacarte needs
to modify the file
applications-gnome.menu to allow items to change in the menu. This requires a simple
change to the file
MenuEditor.py in the alacarte source code replacing the single occurance of
applications.menu with
applications-gnome.menu.
The best way to do this is to download the source rpm and extract the archive then
extract the alacarte source
and modify the file and create the new archive to overwrite the old one then use rpmbuild
to build a new alacarte
rpm module and use yum to reinstall this module. Once done alacarte works ok.
One more thing.
I upgraded from Fedora 15 to Fedora 17 and am running Fedora on VmWorkstation in
Windows.
After turning off the forced fallback mode and logging off and back in again gnome 3
works in the normal mode
except for 3-D effects. Having got used to the fallback mode this is very different and
my first real experience of the
new gnome 3 shell. Overall Fedora 17 works fine in VmWorkstation apart from some problems
with mouse operations.
For example to resize windows I can only use the diagonals not the sides and when using
software like the advanced tweak tool
menu selections act a little like x-windows menu selections requiring one to press the
return key to get the menu to stay.
Anybody had similar problems?