From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Editing of the menu via nautilus [applications:///] returns a message that the file to be edited is read-only. And editing via the context menu is disabled. I have not found any work-around. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.667 gnome 2.8.? How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. From 'Applications' click into a sub-menu 2. right click an entry 3. attempt to remove the entry or add a new entry Actual Results: The context menu item is disabled Expected Results: Freedom to use the context menu item (at least for root) Additional info: I've read somewhere that redhat have switched this feature off due to some issues with gnome. However I have also read that gnome have resolved the issues and that it is now just redhat that need to re-instate this functionality.
The work-around with ~/.gnome2/vfolders also has disappeared with the comming of FC3! As system admin I need to have a way to create user defined menu's... At the moment I can't use FC3 for this reason.
Editing of the menu's via nautilus [applications:///] in other distro's is a common praxis. So why not in FC3?
I found out that there is an organisation called FreeDesktop.org who wants to build a base platform for desktop software on Linux and UNIX. FC3 follows those guidelines as defined by this organisation. In praxis: ~/.config/menus, ~/.local/share/applications and ~/.local/share/desktop-directories are the places to put the customized menus, desktop and directory files.
Fedora Core and (since GNOME 2.9) GNOME upstream uses the relatively new menu specification from freedesktop.org. This effectively means that in order to edit the menus you need to edit the /etc/xdg/menus/*.menu files manually. The plan to resolve this is to: 1) Have a relatively simple menu editor for users which allows you to disable menu items and perhaps have a personal folder in the menus 2) A much more complicated editor for sysadmins who need to completely re-organise menus. This editor will fully expose the idea that the menu is constructed by a vfolder-like query of the .desktop files on the system. However, if and when this happens, it'll happen upstream. Closing UPSTREAM