[ale] Recovering FC11 default GNOME panel

[Jim Philips]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>wrote:

> On Tue May 18 2010, Mills John M-NPHW64 wrote:
> > Somewhere along the line I trashed my desktop and the usual "big 3" menu
> > tabs (Applications, Preferences, Administration) no longer appear in my
> top
> > panel. I installed buttons for my most-used tools but I would rather
> > recover the drop-downs. How can I do this?
> this might help??
>
> http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-users/msg350486.html
>
> The Gnome Desktop System Administration Guide, section 2. Customizing
> Menus,
> provides the information on the format of the .menu, .directory and
> .desktop
> files and tells how they are scattered all over the system with system
> defaults and user overrides.  No wonder I could not tell how the menus are
> built; they use so many files and in many cases scan directories for more
> information to add to the menus.  Complex but once explained it is easy
> (relatively) to follow.   My hat is off to the people who QA this feature;
> there are so many variations that affect the Gnome menus it must have been
> a
> nightmare to test extensively.
>

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?
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