(Not) Customizing Gnome

Toshio Kuratomi toshio at tiki-lounge.com
Wed Nov 2 18:38:27 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:23 -0500, Paul A Houle wrote:
> The documentation sucks.  Instructions for editing the menu 
> graphically "just didn't work."  
That's been broken for quite a while :-(
Try alacarte from Fedora Extras, though.  It seems to work for per user
menu editing.

> I spent about four hours searching the 
> web before I realized that I'd need to get a PhD in Gnome to be able to 
> create arbitrary hiearchies in the 'Hat' menu on the panel.  I had to 
> find a mailing list posting to find out that Nautilus is the application 
> that displays the right-click menu,  not the WM. 
> 
Yeah -- so something will have to be done with Nautilus scripts to work
around that.  FC5 has removed the Open Terminal entry.

-Toshio
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