Adding overrides/child menus with gnome-menus

Ray Strode rstrode at redhat.com
Thu Mar 30 21:50:26 UTC 2006


Hi,

> Folks,
> 
> I'm attempting to add child menus to the default menus in gnome.  I can
> edit /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu but would rather not for obvious
> reasons.  In RHEL 4 I'm able to put a .menu file into
> /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged per:
> 
>     http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-0.9.html
> 
> and that works quite well.  However, with current versions of
> gnome-menus (2.13.5 and 2.12.0 I've tested) this method does not work.
> The applications.menu file in FC5 references a applications.d directory.
> However /etc/xdg/menus/applications.d does not work either.
> 
> Does anyone have any insight on how I can get this to work as described?
It looks like you may have found a bug in gnome-menus. Can you file a
bug report?

--Ray




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