I wanted to add an item to the 'start menu' so I looked at the GNOME online help. This says: >You can modify the contents of the following menus: > > * Applications menu > * System → Preferences submenu > * System → Administration submenu > >To edit the items in these menus, right-click on the panel menubar, and choose >Edit Menus. The Menu Layout window opens. However, this is not the case. When I right-click on the text 'Applications', for example, the menu that appears has the items Help, Remove from Panel, Move, and Lock to Panel. As far as I can tell, there is no way to right-click and have a menu appear with an Edit Menus item. This happens also with a newly created user (and so a clean profile). Either GNOME should be fixed to provide the Edit Menus option, or the help text should be corrected.
Edit Menus should be there. If you bring up a terminal, what is the output of rpm -q alacarte ?
I don't currently have access to the machine where I observed this. It had started off as Fedora Core 3 or so and been upgraded to 4, 5 and 6. But I can note one thing. In the bottom left of the screen, instead of an 'F' icon that can be clicked on to show a main menu, there is a much smaller 'F' and then three pieces of text: Applications, Places, System. In other words there are three start menus instead of one. If you want to shut down the machine, for example, that's under System. I have no idea why GNOME displays the three menus separately on the menu bar, when on other systems it combines them into one. So I was trying to right-click on the word 'Applications' which appears directly on the menu bar. A menu appears but it has no Edit Menus entry. When I get a chance I will do an rpm -qa and attach the output to this bug report.
Okay, I'm going to put this back in NEEDINFO until then.
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