CarlosNYB
July 22nd, 2008, 08:05 PM
1) I want to be able to locate the files which store the customizations I made to the menus and panel launchers on the top bar of the Gnome desktop.
2) I want to be able to look at the categories which are associated with menu items, and the customization file used for menus, so I can edit them manually.
I've been confused by my research so far.
On the one hand there is the /usr/share/applications directory which apparently is supposed to hold the .desktop files which are launched in menus, but I can't see the categories they are associated with, I can only see what seem to be simply the launchers, I right click and see the launcher information, the command line, etc.
Then there's usr/share/desktop-directories, which seems to simply store the launchers for various menus. usr/share//gnome-menus shows me glade.
http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/menustructure-13.html.en informs me of a $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable, so I'm checking that out.
The issue is, I used the main menu applet to re-arrange things nicely, and I put things on panels with separators, and I want to back it up or look at the configuration file myself. Maybe I want to just write the XML and change some categories around. It's not obvious where to go. Obviously I haven't found the right place yet.
2) I want to be able to look at the categories which are associated with menu items, and the customization file used for menus, so I can edit them manually.
I've been confused by my research so far.
On the one hand there is the /usr/share/applications directory which apparently is supposed to hold the .desktop files which are launched in menus, but I can't see the categories they are associated with, I can only see what seem to be simply the launchers, I right click and see the launcher information, the command line, etc.
Then there's usr/share/desktop-directories, which seems to simply store the launchers for various menus. usr/share//gnome-menus shows me glade.
http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/menustructure-13.html.en informs me of a $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable, so I'm checking that out.
The issue is, I used the main menu applet to re-arrange things nicely, and I put things on panels with separators, and I want to back it up or look at the configuration file myself. Maybe I want to just write the XML and change some categories around. It's not obvious where to go. Obviously I haven't found the right place yet.