[Gloucs] Gnome probelm

[Paul Broadhead]

Adam Hawkins <adamhawkins at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> I have just started using Fedora Core 4 with the Gnome desktop after 
> years of SUSE and KDE (just fancied a change :-) ).
> I've installed Transgaming's Cedega, but it had listed it in several 
> different places in the menus in Applications, Places and Desktop.
> I know KDE has a menu editor which gives you complete control over the 
> listings, but I can't work it out in Gnome. HELP!

Bit of a problem that.  Gnome had a great menu editor way base in version 1.2/1.4 but it was thrown out with the bath water come version 2.x.  There is a basic menu editor called smeg.  This is the one used on Ubuntu.  Turns out its been renamed alacarte and is now available in Debian testing under that name.  I presume other distros have one or the other version available.

"Alacarte is a simple freedesktop.org compliant menu editor for GNOME that lets you change your menus, simply and quickly. Just click and type to edit, add, and delete any menu entry."

However, it only appears to change the menu setting for the current user.  Not sure how that works yet.  Mostly I modify the menus as root, by hand, messing with the raw files and directories.  The main gnome menu items on Debian are in /usr/share/applications/.  You can control the sub menu by editing these.  There are other locations too.  It's a bit of a mess really.

Regards,
Paul