On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 07:25, Pinco wrote:
I would like to add an item to the menu, but using the "property" as 'root' form the rightclicking I get an error message saying that it isn't possible to writr on the disk!
See this bug report in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106149
I asked this question a week or so ago. Youssef Makki was kind enough to provide me with this short exchange on the subject of adding items to the menus by hand. I have not tried these modifications yet, but here is the info I have:
HTH,
Andrew Robinson
That's determined in the .desktop file itself, take the xchat one for example:
Categories=Application;Network;
This would make it show up under Internet -> More Internet Applications. Add "X-Red-Hat-Base;" to the categories, and it'll show up in the main Internet menu.
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 15:19, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>> OK, I found the jpilot.desktop file and was able to add an icon to it.
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Next question: What file or file type determines what apps appear in
>> what menu? In other words, how does my system know that the "More Office
>> Applications" menu contains gnumeric, jpilot, kchart, etc?
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> Youssef Makki wrote:
>
>>> > /usr/share/applications, edit the .desktop files there.
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 04:02, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>>> >
>>
>>>> >>Bart Martens wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>
>>>>> >>>On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 07:11, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>
>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>I have some items in my gnome menu that do not have icons associated
>>>>>> >>>>with them. To associate an icon, I tried right-clicking on the item,
>>>>>> >>>>selecting "Properties", clicking on the icon button, then selecting the
>>>>>> >>>>icon from the list. When I close the "Properties" dialog, I get this
>>>>>> >>>>error message:
>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>> >>>> Cannot save changes to launcher
>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>> >>>> Details: Error writing file
>>>>>> >>>> 'applications:/Office/MoreOffice/jpilot.desktop':
>>>>>> >>>> Read-only file system
>>>>
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>Could be related to:
>>>>> >>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106149
>>>>> >>>
>>>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Where are the XML files refered to in that discussion? I'd be happy to
>>>> >>do this configuration by hand if I just knew how.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Thanks!
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Andrew
>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
