Menu Editing in Gnome...

[shanachienz]

I cheked the forums but saw no obvious forum about this.

I ran an update and it screwed the links to my openoffice version.

I have changed some of these, but in the menu system tehy still link to the old version which no longer works.

How can I easily edit the menu links?

I read this http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc4_desktop.shtml but got a little confused. I also found this http://www.realistanew.com/projects/smeg/ but not sure if this is a 'safe' option.

Any one got experience in thsi area, or made these changes before?

Basically, I just want to update the paths correctly in the main menu e.g.

which scalc
/opt/openoffice.org1.9.100/program/scalc


Thanks for the help in advance.

[BandC]

http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc4_desktop.shtml

is a good link. Unfortunatey, there is no easier way than that currently. If you tell what exactly confuses you maybe we can help.

[Paul_Vandenberg]

Try this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=38183

Use the instructions under Downloads and look for 'For those of you on other distros'. You need to download and install http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.14.tar.gz and http://dev.realistanew.com/smeg/latest/smeg.tar.gz

Untar the packages, go into each directory created by the untar, run 'python setup.py install' for pyxdg-0.14 and run 'python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/' for smeg

You should have an entry under System Tools called 'Smeg Menu Editor'. Launch that and edit away.

[Paul_Vandenberg]

Oh yeah.....you need to su to root in a console to do this.

[Darkon]

Um...no need to mess with tarballs. FedoraFAQ menu editing.

[shanachienz]

Hi Paul,

I install Smeg from the first URL in my original post, but it starts to load, and then just mysteriously disappears (that is launching it from the menu).

I decided to launch it from a shell and got these errors:

[root@sam ~]# smeg
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/smeg", line 30, in ?
from MenuHandler import MenuHandler
File "/usr/lib/smeg/MenuHandler.py", line 29, in ?
import xdg.Menu, xdg.Config, xdg.IniFile, xdg.MenuEditor, xdg.BaseDirectory
ImportError: No module named xdg.Menu

Any ideas?

[shanachienz]

Originally Posted by Darkon

Um...no need to mess with tarballs. FedoraFAQ menu editing.

Hi Darkon,

That did it - maybe I needed the other package, not just the base Smeg one to complete it Thanks for your help, once again the Fedora Forums to the rescue!

[BandC]

Ah, cool. I may give this a try to see how well it works. Thanks for the link.

[macgregor]

I have been wanting to completely switch to Gnome but Gnome lacked a menu editor. Because of these forums, I found smeg and that was the killer. I have built FC4 rpm's for smeg and pyxdg and now I have a great menu editor for Gnome. Smeg is great.