I installed a programme recently, and noticed that the "GnoRPM" tool asked me where to put a ".desktop" icon that turned out to put an icon in the "main menu".
Frustrated at the clumsyness of the menu editors and intrigued that their might be a process as straight forward as (and similar in simplicity to) the mac's "apple menu" buried somewhere in the system, I went to investigate... So, I logged in as root and went sniffing around in "usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus" and "usr/share/gnome/programs"... And, now the "main menu" has disappeared! No surprise to some I guess? The only thing I changed was the "Gnome Color Selector" that I opened in "gedit": changed the "comment [en_GB]" and "name [en_GB]" to "Gnome Colour Selector" (fair enough, I thought...). I opened some other files with "gedit" just for a look, but closed them without saving. First, as I was browsing with "nautilus" in the "Programs" directory (I may also have been browsing with gedit's file open dialogue) I noticed that all the Mandrake menu's had gone (yup, I looked in "usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus" before I looked in "usr/share/gnome/programs"). Then, after I closed "nautilus" and "gedit" and logged out of root and back into my account - holding my breath the whole time - I found the whole "main menu" had gone. I got an error message that the "main menu" couldn't be found... Any help with my "investigation" and putting the "main menu" back would be really appreciated. Thanks, Morgan. -- Morgan Read mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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