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garyheinl
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 Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:11 pm Post subject: Gnome Can You Edit the Menus? |
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| The only thing I can do with new applications is create a laucher on the desktop. Is there a menu editor program? Gnome help says you can do it but I have no such menu choice when I righ click an existing menu item. |
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pjp
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chunderbunny
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| If you right-click on the menu root (not the menu itself) then you can select the "Edit Menus" option which allows you to remove menu entries. You can't add any though. |
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crudh
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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Is that really in normal portage? I don't have it and I synced 30 mins ago. It's still called smeg for me.
* x11-misc/smeg
Latest version available: 0.7.5
Homepage: http://www.realistanew.com/projects/smeg/
Description: Simple Menu Editor for Gnome, written in Python |
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paul555
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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here is the ebuild
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simkin
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:26 am Post subject: |
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| chunderbunny wrote: | | If you right-click on the menu root (not the menu itself) then you can select the "Edit Menus" option which allows you to remove menu entries. You can't add any though. |
Ei, thanks chunderbunny, I didn't know that! It's nearly identical to smeg. |
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sargek
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:05 am Post subject: Menus |
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| chunderbunny wrote: | | If you right-click on the menu root (not the menu itself) then you can select the "Edit Menus" option which allows you to remove menu entries. You can't add any though. |
You can add menus in Gnome 2.10, but not by right-clicking. Go to /usr/share/applications and add a .desktop file formatted as the rest of the .desktop files there, and a new menu item will appear. I can't speak for 2.12's capabilities.
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omp
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:57 am Post subject: |
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Is that really in normal portage? I don't have it and I synced 30 mins ago. It's still called smeg for me.
* x11-misc/smeg
Latest version available: 0.7.5
Homepage: http://www.realistanew.com/projects/smeg/
Description: Simple Menu Editor for Gnome, written in Python |
I'm guessing it has been renamed.
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Raftysworld
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:08 am Post subject: |
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Smeg works great except that it would be nice to be able to edit the Places and System menus... I guess places you can sort of edit already. I wonder why the Gnome team gutted the menu editor after 2.8??
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sargek
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| Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:18 am Post subject: Menu standard |
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| Raftysworld wrote: | | Smeg works great except that it would be nice to be able to edit the Places and System menus... I guess places you can sort of edit already. I wonder why the Gnome team gutted the menu editor after 2.8?? |
I believe 2.10 uses a different standard than 2.8 and they did not have time to write a menu editor for the new standard.
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paul555
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I installed alacarte in gnome 2.12 it is great but the only problem i have is that for menu entries that doesn't have an icon i can't right click it and select the available options such as properties.Any suggestions?
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bluefox81
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I've the same problem... starting alacarte from a console i get
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/GnomeFront.py", line 436, in on_editproperties_activate self.dialogs.editEntryDialog(item)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/GnomeDialogHandler.py", line 215, in editEntryDialog iconButton.set_pixmap_subdir(item.iconPath)
TypeError: GnomeIconEntry.set_pixmap_subdir() argument 1 must be string, not None
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Then you can fix this simply with one line of code:
file "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/GnomeDialogHandler.py"
line 215 --> insert this line
| Code: | | if item.iconPath == None : item.iconPath = '' |
be careful with the indentation, python use this now strange but smart trick to delimit block
if someone want make a temporary patch... (and who can insert alacarte in the portage-tree.... tnx) |
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paul555
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:19 am Post subject: |
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bluefox81 your fix worked many thanks .I will try to make a patch but i don't promise a lot.You should file a bug with your proposal.And again many thanks
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codedmart
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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When I try to start alacarte I get this error
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File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 20, in ?
from Alacarte.GnomeFront import GnomeFront
ImportError: No module named Alacarte.GnomeFront |
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zietbukuel
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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Can't find alacarte in portage  |
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Maedhros
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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It's still smeg-0.7.5 in portage - I guess it just hasn't been updated for a while...
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