Re: [Gware-users] new gnome-menus layout

[Don T. <dt...@gw...>]

Typos Corrected.

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 15:32 -0500, Don Tanner wrote:
> 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 1,2,3 and 4 are system-wide defaults.
> 
> 5)	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
> 
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