HOWTO: GNOME - Remove Menu Icon Arrow

[InfinityCircuit]

Am I missing something? Why are you using apt-build + make install? Why not apt-get source + debuild which will create debs?

[InfinityCircuit]

I have built amd64 and i386 debs for this patch on my ppa. Feel free to use them. This will also overcome the issue of make install being non-reversible.

https://launchpad.net/~dmoerner/+archive

If you just want the patch:

dmr@skynet:~/Documents/Work/gnome-panel$ cat gnome-panel-2.22.2/debian/patches/91_no-arrow-fix.patch 
--- gnome-panel-2.22.2/gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c	2008-08-10 18:13:55.000000000 -0700
+++ gnome-panel-2.22.2.new/gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c	2008-08-10 18:13:39.000000000 -0700
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ panel_menu_button_load (const char  *men
 			       "tooltip", tooltip,
 			       "use-menu-path", use_menu_path,
 			       "use-custom-icon", use_custom_icon,
-			       "has-arrow", TRUE,
+			       "has-arrow", FALSE,
 			       NULL);
 
 	info = panel_applet_register (GTK_WIDGET (button), NULL, NULL,

[sandpaperback]

Thank you so much for the package! It worked flawlessly and I'm FINALLY rid of that arrow!

[ondope]

thank you very much for this repo. Just what I was looking for

[faraday]

When I run:

sudo gedit gnome-panel-*/gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c

the file doesn't seem to exist?

[andrek]

When I run:


the file doesn't seem to exist?

Instead of manual editing files and building it up, use following repository :

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/dmoerner/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/dmoerner/ubuntu hardy main

- add it to your sources.list file and then install gnome-panel from it.

[faraday]

After adding the repositories I get:

gnome-panel:
Depends: libebook1.2-9 (>=2.22.3) but 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: libecal1.2-7 (>=2.22.3) but 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: libedataserver1.2-9 (>=2.22.3) but 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: libedataserverui1.2-8 (>=2.22.3) but 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>=1.20.5) but 1.20.1-1 is to be installed

[andrek]

Hm, I guess the repository's owner hasn't updated its files. I'll try to contact him.

[faraday]

Thanks.

I am currently stuck without any taskbar at all, and with that I appear to have lost the ability to run terminal. Oh dear!

[andrek]

Sorry for a long delay, but I've finally got a response from the repository's maintainer.

Thanks for the heads up. I will build a hardy chroot in the next
couple of days to test this out.