Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 126215
Disable menu editing menu items (e.g. "Add new item to this menu")
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:02 EST
Description of problem: **This is the same bug that has been reported for Fedora Core (bug #107899)** Applications cannot be added to Applications menu, unless the .desktop files are dropped in ~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Applications menu, go into any other menu (e.g. Accessories). 2. Right click, choose Entire menu, then Add new item to this menu. 3. Fill in the details of the application. 4. Click OK. Actual Results: Application (launcher) cannot be added. Following error message is presented: Cannot save menu item to disk Details: Error writing file 'applications:/Accessories/t.desktop': Unsupported operation Expected Results: Should be possible to add new applications. Additional info:
Hello? This is known as a major major bug, right? As a user you can't change your own apps menu?!!
Menu editing is not supported in GNOME on RHEL3. The bug that needs to be fixed here is that the "Add new item to this menu" should be disabled, since it doesn't do anything.
Okay, closing this bug because we're unlikely to ever release a RHEL3 errata just to disable these menu items. They're not very visible in the menus and they just display a warning dialog, so it doesn't seem worth it. However, menu editing is something that is being worked on upstream in GNOME.