Dear all,

I have recently installed GNOME 2.10 (from garnome ball 2-10.0.1) and have some trouble with my main menu now. I want to add new programs to this menu but right-clicking on the "foot"-icon does not give me anything like "Properties" or so. It only shows
- Help
- Remove from Panel
- Move
- Lock to Panel

When going into a menu, I don't get appropriate selections upon right-clicking either. There, I can only find:
- Add this launcher to panel
- Entire Menu
-> Add this as drawer to panel
-> Add this as menu to panel

Nothing else.

Also, the second way described in the GNOME manual, to start nautilus and go to "applications:///" does not help. "applications:///" is not a valid location." is the error message in return. (BTW, that also happens with some other standard locations which were available in my previous GNOME 2.6 installation (e.g. system, preferences), locations such as "fonts:///", "computer:///", or "burn:///" work, though).

I have tried to fiddle through the .directory and .desktop-entries in ~/garnome/share/applications but to no avail. To be honest, I somewhat gave up understanding how this works, although I'm still eager to learn about that. GNOME's documentation is a bit lacking here -- or does anyone have a link to a nice and detailed explanation how to tweak these entries?

What can I do to add programs to my menus? What have I done wrong before? Especially, I want the KDE menus back which were automatically installed in GNOME with my SuSE 9.2 installation. Any hints?

Any help appreciated!

Cheers,
Manfred

PS: I'm running SuSE 9.2 -- although I don't think it matters which distro I use since I suspect the problem in my GNOME installation.

It appears that gnome-vfs isn't working.

I can't help any further unfortunately.

Apparently "applications:///" doesn't work anymore. Do you have any entries at all in your GNOME menu.

Yes, I have the GNOME apps in my menu which come with garnome. (Although I have to verify whether there are additional programs listed in my menu as well, it seems there are more than the ones included in garnome).

The gnome-vfs-daemon is running properly on my machine. Also, as said before, _some_ locations exist, but "applications:///", "preferences:///", and "system:///" do not work. They are not even present in the gnome-vfs module files (located at $GARNOME/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules). A grep doesn't show any entry there... Can I fix that manually?

Cheers,
Manfred

I am not very proficient with GNOME being a long time KDE user, but I found the #gnome irc channel on freenode very helpful when I needed some assistance with GNOME 2.10, so try asking your questions there. Good luck.