how do you edit the menu in gnome?

aaronruss · 01-23-2005, 02:23 AM

How do you edit the applications menu in gnome? I need to add a lanucher.

filosophem · 01-23-2005, 06:02 AM

Isn't it a right click -> menu editor on the gnome icon in the taskbar you have to do?

aaronruss · 01-23-2005, 04:21 PM

I would think so but when I do that the option to add a menu item is grayed out.

When I open a file browse window and type applications:/// I can see the items in the menu but every thing is read only even if I'm logged in as root.

Why is this? How do you change any thing?

filosophem · 01-23-2005, 04:39 PM

Just by curiosity, is the same happening with KDE?

aaronruss · 01-23-2005, 09:38 PM

I don't know. I dont have KDE installed.

ColKurtz · 01-23-2005, 09:47 PM

Don't you have to be logged in as root? Are you?

aaronruss · 02-07-2005, 11:03 PM

I get the same thing when logged in as root. I noticed the other day while looking at a FC2 computer that the option was not grayed out but it is on my FC3 Computer. Maby its a bug.

morrolan · 02-23-2005, 06:55 AM

It isn't a bug - (well it's classed as abug, but it isn't).

GNOME had a way of editing menu's graphically, but it sucked, and since then they are moving away from the old method of menu creation to a new method, but it isn't ready yet.

The best way to edit the menu's is to edit the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications. Look at some of the current ones to find out how they are working, and have a look at this link:

www.bluethingy.com

It's old, but basically still the same method.