The game continues... I am building gnome-2.9.91.1 in background as we speak. Hope springs eternal...
-Joseph ============================================================================= On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:07, Eric Dunbar wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:17:47 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. > <joseph_sacco@> wrote: > > Thanks for the offer. My interest would be purely academic at this point > > as I am looking to move on to a later version of GNOME. > > > > Not being able to easily edit a menu is an aggravation, but not a show > > stopper. Since I [sort of] know how the menu system works, I can add > > and remove things manually by altering the contents of the appropriate > > directories. > > > > I believe that TSS is in the process of testing the current stable > > version of GNOME, which is 2.8.2.1. releasing 2.8.2.1, even with locked > > menus, would be a good thing since it will update the GNOME support > > libraries. > > Message 1: > Am Freitag, den 28.01.2005, 16:57 -0500 schrieb WirelessMike: > > Frankly, I'm stumped. I've searched through directories to try to find > > a harder way, but I have found nothing. I've seen both the methods > > mentioned here work in warty on gnome 2.8, but neither works on hoary > > with gnome 2.9. > > > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! > > in gnome 2.9 the menu editing was redesigned to the new > freedesktop.org standard. for this there is no gui based menu editing > functionallity yet. currently you will have to add launchers for the > menu by editing .desktop files in: > > ~/.local/share/applications/ > > to get an example file to modify, copy one from > /usr/share/applications to this directory. > > Message 2: > > Am Mittwoch, den 16.02.2005, 16:48 +0100 schrieb Simon Santoro: > > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/menuediting.html > > it really reads like it's not very complex. just .desktop files with > > attributes in it. if only i had time to do some python in my > > (inexistant) spare time... > > erm, that is exactly what has been dropped..... you should look here: > > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmenu_2dspec > > for the new standard. > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' -- joseph_sacco[at]comcast[dot]net _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
