Comments on: Edit your GNOME menus

By: lee

lee — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:35:27 +0000

“The GNOME desktop has one of the easiest to manage menu systems of any desktop (Linux or not)” – You have got to be kidding me. Seriously? Customizing Gnome menus is about as pleasant as a root canal. Whereas in Windows–XP, Vista, and 7–it was a simple and painless matter of drag-and dropping shortcuts and folders in the file manager. It’s just shortcut files and folders. It was so vastly easier and more sensible… Why can’t it be that easy in Gnome? I had to learn all about these arcane Freedesktop.org specifications and desktop files just to have enough clue about what’s going on to undo the damage I caused… And now I find that when I add a submenu to certain menus, it refuses to appear–I used to be able to do this with no problem, and I still can in some menus but mysteriously not in others… Although a .desktop file is created, the folder doesn’t appear in Alacarte or in the actual menu. At least now I understand where my changes are stored, so after I’ve painstakingly hand-crafted my personal menu structure (a multi-select feature was too much of a challenge for the Alacarte team to implement?) I can save it and back it up so I won’t have to go through this torture again.

I’ve been using Linux for almost a year now, and rarely miss Windows, but dealing with Gnome menus makes me want to throw Ubuntu out the Window.

By: nk

nk — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:48:23 +0000

“The GNOME desktop has one of the easiest to manage menu systems of any desktop (Linux or not)” – Surely you must be joking. Windows’ start menu is a LOT easier. Why isn’t there just a drag & drop facility. Alacarte is not stable and crashes.

By: magnus

magnus — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:16:02 +0000

hey,

Do you know how to edit menu from bash, from script.

By: James D

James D — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:20:02 +0000

Okay, so how do you control the behavior of the Places menu as to whether it lists entries directly under Places or collapses them into a Bookmarks sub-menu? The word on the net is that that is impossible without manually recompiling GNOME, thanks to the design of Nautilus (which also makes multiple wallpapers unnecessarily difficult). Perhaps they should look at replacing Nautilus completely in GNOME 3, just as KDE has tried to move away from its swiss-army-knife file manager Konqueror.

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Editing your KDE menus — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:51:35 +0000

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By: pawpawyoung

pawpawyoung — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:07:57 +0000

Very useful tips, thank you.