Renaming & Deleting Menu Items

[Vishal Gupta 4]

Guys!

I want to know is there any way to delete or rename the Menu items (Program Menu as well as Desktop menu, when we Right-click on desktop) in GNome of Red Hat Linux 9.0?

When i tried to delete a Program menu item, by right clicking on it & select "Delete", it showed ERROR message like "Can not found or something like that".

I think that these items surely present in some directory, but in which?

So that i can delete them or rename them.

And can we rename desktop Menu items, like "Clean up by name" and others, which showed, When we right-click on desktop?

Pls tell me!

[dacodecz 0]

Guys!

I want to know is there any way to delete or rename the Menu items (Program Menu as well as Desktop menu, when we Right-click on desktop) in GNome of Red Hat Linux 9.0?

When i tried to delete a Program menu item, by right clicking on it & select "Delete", it showed ERROR message like "Can not found or something like that".

I think that these items surely present in some directory, but in which?

So that i can delete them or rename them.

And can we rename desktop Menu items, like "Clean up by name" and others, which showed, When we right-click on desktop?

Pls tell me!

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Dear vishal,

If you are using the gnome desktop then there is an utility named gconf-editor that you can use to change most of the settings, well if you feel like a geek today :-) then check "/etc/xdg" and all of its friends.

Cheers ............

[Vishal Gupta 4]

thnx for ur reply.

But gconf-editor is also present as a menu named Configuration Editor in System Tools -> More System Tools.

I hv used it a lot times but didnt find what i wanted?

And there is no directory named xdg in /etc folder.

Edited February 18, 2005 by Vishal Gupta

[dacodecz 0]

thnx for ur reply.

But gconf-editor is also present as a menu named Configuration Editor in System Tools -> More System Tools.

I hv used it a lot times but didnt find what i wanted?

And there is no directory named xdg in /etc folder.

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Dear vishal,

Are you sure there is no "/etc/xdg/menus" directory in ur installation?.

Ok for raw handling of this issue do,

"find / -path /var -prune -o -path /proc -prune -o -path /tmp -prune -o -path /mnt -prune -o -depth -type f -name \*.menu -print -o -name \*.desktop -print -o -name \*.directory -print | tee files.log"

Now check the files.log for the files having extension {menu,desktop,directory}, I bet you will find lots of them, anyway for starting your tweaking journey you can focus on the ones you found in your $HOME directory, besides you can start from these files,

[[[[[[[

applications.menu

applications-merged/*.menu

preferences.menu

start-here.menu

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/Root.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/Settings.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/Other.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/theme-method.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/Accessories.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/Games.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/font-method.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/Internet.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/System.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/Multimedia.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/Applications.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/Development.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/Graphics.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/Office.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/Advanced.directory

/usr/share/gnome/vfolders/Accessibility.directory

]]]]]]]]]]]

Go through these documents if your intention is to customized the entire menu structure of your system.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/

Hope this will help you solve your problem :-)

Cheers ..........