<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Jim Philips <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com" target="_blank">ale@pcartwright.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue May 18 2010, Mills John M-NPHW64 wrote:<br>
> Somewhere along the line I trashed my desktop and the usual "big 3" menu<br>
> tabs (Applications, Preferences, Administration) no longer appear in my top<br>
> panel. I installed buttons for my most-used tools but I would rather<br>
> recover the drop-downs. How can I do this?<br>
this might help??<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-users/msg350486.html" target="_blank">http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-users/msg350486.html</a><br>
<br>
The Gnome Desktop System Administration Guide, section 2. Customizing Menus,<br>
provides the information on the format of the .menu, .directory and .desktop<br>
files and tells how they are scattered all over the system with system<br>
defaults and user overrides. No wonder I could not tell how the menus are<br>
built; they use so many files and in many cases scan directories for more<br>
information to add to the menus. Complex but once explained it is easy<br>
(relatively) to follow. My hat is off to the people who QA this feature;<br>
there are so many variations that affect the Gnome menus it must have been a<br>
nightmare to test extensively.<br></blockquote></div><br></div>This stuff reminds me of why I have avoided Gnome in recent years. Does anyone know if they plan to make these things more easily configurable in Gnome 3?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Probably more of the same. Gnome is _very_ configurable just not from a command line. They chose the nearly-all-gui route a long time ago. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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