Gnome 2.0

[kaptainkal1]

I'm using Fedora, and I had a quesitno regarding the usage of Gnome. This is the first time i'm using gnome, normally, i always used KDE. I have several shortcuts on my desktop as well as in the start menu (as they say in windows) that I need to edit, however, i do not see how its possible to edit the menu. in KDE, i simply right clicked on the start menu, and clicked on properties (I think?) and i got a dialog of all the folders and shortcuts, and was able to edit them. How is this done in gnome?

[rbrimhall]

http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/redhat/fedora_1_gnome_menu_editing.html

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2002-August/msg00166.html

Q: How do I edit the menus in the panel?
A: Warning: Menu editing is disabled for a reason. It can cause crashes, and you can lose whole menus. If you still want to do it, here's how:

1. Open a Terminal.
2. Become root. (su -)
3. cd /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/
4. cp default-modules.conf default-modules.conf.withOUT-menu-editing
5. cp default-modules.conf.with-menu-editing default-modules.conf
6. Log out and log back in again.

You should now be able to edit the menus, by right-clicking.

(Thanks to Gene C. for this. Thanks to Clifford Snow for the warning.)

From: http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#EditMenus

Menu-editing in RedHat 9/Fedora Core 1

* To enable menu editing per user config (via nautilus), you need to open a terminal and do the following:

su -
<give root password>
cd /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules
cp default-modules.conf default-modules.conf-no-menu-editing
cp default-modules.conf.with-menu-editing default-modules.conf

For any user you want to have the right to edit their menu, you also need to do this as the user:

cd ~/.gnome2/vfolders
cp /etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu applications.vfolder-info
* When gnome-panel is restarted (via logout/login or kill) the user will be able to see the changes they have made to their menu.
* As some have noted, the above is a slightly risky way of menu-editing. It could break your menu in some cases. There is however a great resource which explains how the menu system works, and from this you should be able to customise your menu easily enough. Checkout bluethingy.com for more info. Here's google's cache if the site times out (it did for me).

From: http://people.ecsc.co.uk/~matt/repository.html


All results from a simple google for "edit gnome menus fedora rh9"

[kaptainkal1]

I did what was said, however, I'm not able to do what I originally wanted to do. I wanted to be able to get the command that a certain shortcut in my menu is sending. Like when you launch an application, for example, we'll say u want to launch an application called: example. the command the shortcut in the menu will give is: /usr/bin/example. But what if i have the shortcut, but i want to get hte command its giving? In KDE it was very easy to do. I had fedora originally with KDE and had no problem doing htat. I've never used gnome before...

[rbrimhall]

if you right click the item and select properties it shows you all of the information about that app. It's definately not as intuitive as KDE's system I'll admit...