Customizing menus in 2.10Beta

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 06:26:46 +0100 (CET), Peter Ulrich Kruppa  
<root at pukruppa.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:07:32 +0100 (CET), Peter Ulrich Kruppa  
>> <root at pukruppa.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>  gnome help says, to change menu items, one has to access
>>>  	applications-all-users:///
>>> via nautilus.
>>> All I receive is a message about this being an invalid place (sorry,  
>>> if this isn't correctly retranslated from German).
>>>  Did I miss something?
>>
>> There is no menu editor in GNOME 2.10, GNOME developers have removed it  
>> because they made a big change in the core to follow freedesktop.org  
>> standard. We have third party in deskutils/gnome-menu-editor that might  
>> be go in GNOME 2.12.
>
> I have just tried that, but as far as I can see you can only switch  
> on/off apps that are already in the menus.
> Is there really no way to add applications to the menus?

Yes, create your own .desktop file.

> I guess average users (like me) will complain about that.

Yes, this is a bad decision made by GNOME developers. :-/ There might have  
more better third party menu editor in gnomefiles.org ..

Cheers,
Mezz

> Regards,
>
> Uli.
>
>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>  Uli.
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