Description of problem: Is menu editing supposed to work in Phoebe? I have opened Start here, navigated to Applications/{,Extras}/Sound & Video, and moved Rhythmbox from extras to base. The panel menu hasn't changed, and the changes in Start here disappeared on next login. Sorry, this may be misfiled (perhaps gnome-vfs2?) Havoc, it is for you anyway ;-) Thanks
No, it's not supposed to work yet I'm 99% sure this bug is a dup ;-)
Also, if you add an item directly to the menu (right click->Entire menu->Add new item...), it will only be displayed for the current session. After logging out, the item is not reloaded, though the desktop file created in ~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications remains.
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The menu code is reverted to the 8.0/GNOME2.0 code post-Phoebe, because the GNOME 2.2 code is uber-broken, even in read-only mode (if you never edit it). Things look bad at the moment.
I am confused - what exactly are the issues with gnome-vfs and RH? I know that in stock gnome, full menu editing has worked since 2.0.2 + 1 release of gnome-panel For info I am running phoebe1 + full g2 current build, with the menus config files symlinked to the files in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0 (so I have the same menu layout), and everything just works.
It hasn't worked in stock gnome, it's buggy as hell. It mostly works using the menus that come with gnome, and if you don't need KDE to use the same menus. With our vfolder files, the code gets confused and displays things in the wrong place. The code modifies the vfolder files so KDE can't read them, even if you never edit your menus. The code does not properly update when new .desktop files are installed. The code does not support OnlyShowIn. The code does support some weird undocumented extensions. The code crashes. etc. There's a lot of difference between "appears to work for me" and "will not result in deluge of bugzilla reports" ;-) I think it can appear to work for a lot of people even when 20% of people are seeing serious bugs. And 20% of our users is at least tens of thousands of people...
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See https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/phoebe-list/2003-January/001721.html Bugs reported in followups to that include possible crashes, and submenu contents vanishing if you move the whole submenu.
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Has this problem been fixed yet? I see it goes back more than a year. It was very disappointing to find that menus cannot be changed. I'm surprised this still has "normal" priority and severity. Is there a way to workaround this problem without breaking anything else? The Navy purchased this system (and others) from Dell with RHL 9 and 3 yrs of RHN. We expected more stability. They are not going to want to hear that they have to reach in their pocket again to upgrade to RHEL workstation so we can have workable machines.
Can someone please post a way of adding to the darn menu, this is annoying, I have to click on the Hat and RUN and type my own symlinks in /bin to get programs running, very annoying.
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what about writning the status of the bug redhat?
This example adds JEdit to the accessories menu. It assumes that you're using the gnome desktop. Do the following as root: Open /usr/share/applications/gnome-gedit.desktop in a text editor. Copy it's contents. Paste in new file. change lines: ... Name=JEdit ... Comment=Java Based IDE ... Exec=java -jar /usr/local/share/jedit/4.2/jedit.jar ... Icon=/usr/local/share/jedit/4.2/doc/jedit.png I left the lines in between alone. I'm sure they're just translations. Then remove lines: X-GNOME-DocPath=gedit/gedit.xml X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=gedit X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.4 *Note: Don't remove the Catagories or StarupNotify lines. Save the new file in the same directory with the name gnome-jedit.desktop JEdit should be in your accessories menu.
*** Bug 137085 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Editing works differently now.