[ale] Recovering FC11 default GNOME panel

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>wrote:
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>> On Tue May 18 2010, Mills John M-NPHW64 wrote:
>> > Somewhere along the line I trashed my desktop and the usual "big 3" menu
>> > tabs (Applications, Preferences, Administration) no longer appear in my
>> top
>> > panel. I installed buttons for my most-used tools but I would rather
>> > recover the drop-downs. How can I do this?
>> this might help??
>>
>> http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-users/msg350486.html
>>
>> The Gnome Desktop System Administration Guide, section 2. Customizing
>> Menus,
>> provides the information on the format of the .menu, .directory and
>> .desktop
>> files and tells how they are scattered all over the system with system
>> defaults and user overrides.  No wonder I could not tell how the menus are
>> built; they use so many files and in many cases scan directories for more
>> information to add to the menus.  Complex but once explained it is easy
>> (relatively) to follow.   My hat is off to the people who QA this feature;
>> there are so many variations that affect the Gnome menus it must have been
>> a
>> nightmare to test extensively.
>>
>
> This stuff reminds me of why I have avoided Gnome in recent years. Does
> anyone know if they plan to make these things more easily configurable in
> Gnome 3?
>

Probably more of the same. Gnome is _very_ configurable just not from a
command line. They chose the nearly-all-gui route a long time ago.

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