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[Gware-users] new gnome-menus layout
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From: Don T. <dt...@gw...> - 2005-07-13 20:32:43
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Hello Chris, On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 09:48 -0500, chris king wrote: > Thanks for replying. Not a problem. Your welcome. > also wondering about a menu editor. Join the crowd =) We are currently still looking into this, I believe the change of not having it as easy as right-clicking in the menu itself is the biggest hurdle as everyone was used to that and of course it is the easiest way. That feature no longer exists in stock gnome in the 2.10.x series. I am not exactly sure which version that feature was removed (the right-click in menu to change/edit menu feature). Right-clicking on a menu item no longer gives you the option of editing the menu itself. It gives you the options of adding a menu/sub-menu entry to the panel as you have probably already noticed. I will give you a brief of what we have discovered so far. Keep in mind I am not an expert on the new menu system and I am only sharing what we have discovered so far. =) ========== 1) The Foot Menu main entries The main entries in the Foot menu are created by the gnome-menus package. I will paste only a couple of examples from the gnome-menus package and you will see the pattern: /usr/share/desktop-directories/Accessibility.directory /usr/share/desktop-directories/Accessories.directory /usr/share/desktop-directories/Games.directory Take Multimedia.directory and Office.directory for examples here... /usr/share/desktop-directories/Multimedia.directory /usr/share/desktop-directories/Office.directory 2) Multimedia.directory /usr/share/desktop-directories/Multimedia.directory Notice that Multimedia.directory creates the menu entry actually named "Sound & Video" (Foot -> Sound & Video)" and NOT "Foot -> Multimedia". The reason for this you will find by looking in the file Multimedia.directory and noticing the second line from the top of the file... "Name=Sound & Video" <-- This line in the Multimedia.directory file determines the name that shows up in the menu, therefore the text that shows up in the menu has nothing to do with the file name itself. It is determined by that line in the file. If a file in this directory happens to be named the same as it's menu entry: (The "Foot -> Office" is a good example), it is not a result of the file name. It would mean that it just so happens the file name is the same as the "Name=foo" line in the file which is why I chose Office.directory as my second example we will examine next. 3) Office.directory /usr/share/desktop-directories/Office.directory This file creates the menu entry "Foot -> Office" Looking in the file you will find the line: "Name=Office" therefore the menu entry name is the same as the file name but only because of the "Name=foo" line in the Office.directory file. These files (*.directory) makeup the main structure of the Foot menu and possibly "Places" and "Desktop" although I have not researched that far yet. But for sure the files I listed above create main menu entries in the Foot menu. Look around in the gnome-menus package and inside the files in the directory/files I listed above and it will give you an idea of the syntax of the files, etc. 4) The Foot Sub-Menus The sub-menu entries are created by *.desktop files. For our example we will use the AbiWord sub-menu entry. I have the stock Slackware-10.1 AbiWord package installed. It ships with this file: -> /usr/share/applications/abiword.desktop It creates this entry in the Foot menu... "Foot -> Office -> AbiWord" These sub-menu entries are created by *.desktop files and on a system-wide basis are located here: /usr/share/applications/*.desktop Section 1,2 and 3 are system-wide defaults. 4) Sub-Menu entries on a per user basis If a user wants to create his own menu entry, for AbiWord for example, he would put his own abiword.desktop file in this directory: ~/.local/share/applications/abiword.desktop This file for a particular user would override the system-wide abiword.desktop file thus allowing the user to customize that particular entry. ========== > is there a > package available or how do you edit the menu. from what I've been Unfortunately we have found no package that will edit these files for you with a GUI interface. If you find a menu-editor for the gnome-2.10.x versions please feel free to let us know. =) > thanks > chris Hope this helps in some way, Don -- http://gware.org/ Freenode - #gware |
