shilo |
09-27-2004 11:11 PM |
Here's what I do. Open up the menu. Keep going until you get to the section of menu that you'd like to add a new item to. Right click on that section of menu. You should see an option that says, "Entire menu". It's a drop-down list. One of the choices is "Add new item to this menu". Click on that.
So something should have popped up. You should be under the "Basic" tab. Under "Name:" type a good name for you to remember the item by (this is what you'll see in the menu). Under "Comment:" add something to give you a little more detail about waht you are adding ( this is the pop-up that you will see if you hover over the item). Under "Command:" add the command that starts the program. Click on the words "No Icon" and you will be able to browse to the icon that you would like to have appear in the menu (I usually figure out what the correct icon is ahead of time). Click "OK" and you are all done. It should be in your menu. Try it out. If you have problems, just right-click on it in the menu and you should be able to edit it. Most of the time, the problem is a bad command. Try using full pathnames if you need to.
I like Gnome's system of doing things. KDE automatically shows me all of the KDE programs, along with the Gnome programs. Makes for a mighty big menu. Besides that, most of the programs listed are duplicitous. For most of the Gnome programs listed under the KDE menu, there is a corresponding KDE program. If I am using KDE, I really don't care to see all of the Gnome programs that do exactly the same thing as their KDE counterparts.
Total side note, Gnome 2.8 rocks. I believe that Gnome 3.0 is supposed to be out around Mar. 2005. Couple that with a new 2.6 kernel that does CD burning without SCSI emulation, it's gonna be one kick-@$$ system. The only thing I am really wondering about is the whole browser issue. I don't think Gnome is switching to the Firefox/Thunderbird combo. With Pat V. dropping Epiphany and Galeon, will any Slack users that want to have a complete Gnome system be able to have a really complete Gnome desktop without third-party apps?
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