Re: gnome-menu-editor: first impressions

[Doug Rintoul <courtjestr gmail com>]

I just tried this out too. Note that I had to use the first libmenu 
patch, not the updated one.

Everything compiled fine. This app really is in its infant stage. It 
currently is just a menu item enabler/disabler. It does not allow you to 
add new submenus or any menu items. It does give one hope though.

Doug.
Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> I have gnome-menu-editor-0.1 working on a PPC running YDL-4.0.1 and
> garnome-2.10.0.1:
>
> 	http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-February/msg00425.html
>
> * pulled down the two patches for gnome-menus-2.10.0
>  [layout & libmenu] referenced above.
>
> * manually applied the patches to gnome-menue-2.10.0, 
>
> * rebuilt and re-installed gnome-menus-2.10.0,
>
> * pulled down, built, and installed gnome-menu-editor-0.1
>
>
> Discussion
> ------------
> This application is useful, even in its infant state, because it can
> include/exclude single menu items.  Current GNOME behavior is to install
> *any* compatible menu it finds on a system, which leads to duplicate
> entries when the system has more than one GNOME installation.
>
> YDL-4.0.1 ships with GNOME-2.6 as well as KDE-3.3.2.  GNOME-2.10.0.1
> finds and installs *all* compatible menus, which leads to annoying
> duplication.  With gnome-menu-editor, the GNOME-2.6 entries can be
> "excluded" from view as described in the Free Desktop menu spec:
>
>  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmenu_2dspec
>
>
> -Joseph
>
>