(Not) Customizing Gnome

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>  
>
>    People who want to create a kiosk mode,  on the other hand,  need 
> complete control of the right-click menu.
>
>    There's a lot of thought in the RH/Fedora desktop about superficial 
> kinds of customization (visual themes,  backgrounds -- it's easy to 
> change the desktop background from the right-click menu,  for example) 
> but you're in bad shape if you want to change behavior.  I couldn't 
> care less about changing how focus works:  I switch all the time 
> between mac and windows,  linux and solaris,  so my brain adjusts to 
> whatever I get:  however,  it ought to be easy to add a new menu to 
> the panel and edit it with either a text configuration file,  a 
> graphical tool or both.

Look at the following projects

http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/sabayon
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-October/msg00359.html

regards
Rahul