Comments on: Customizing the GNOME Main Menu

By: Ted Haeger

Ted Haeger — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:56:21 +0000

@Spartan2276: Probably if you were to use gconf-editor, you could find the non-programmatic options available. Try the Ubuntu forums, too. I’m not at Novell anymore, so I have not really followed advancements from a technical angle lately.

By: Spartan2276

Spartan2276 — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:41:17 +0000

Is there a way to change the name on the Menu “Computer” and the Icon for let’s say Ubuntu and the Ubuntu logo?

By: Ted Haeger

Ted Haeger — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:54:00 +0000

@Erik Forsberg: Yes.

By: Erik Forsberg

Erik Forsberg — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:25:53 +0000

Can the application browser be disabled and replaced by the standard Gnome menu?

By: Ted Haeger

Ted Haeger — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:32:55 +0000

@Wray [15]: I’m not sure how you would do that. Try consulting this page.
–Ted

By: wray

wray — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:59:33 +0000

Hey how do I change the color or opacity it dosen’t seem to take my gtk themes and I tried adding it to my compiz opacity settings but nothing seems to work

By: Farhan

Farhan — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:44:23 +0000

application launchers for add-on software or for you custom applications should be placed in /usr/share/application/ folder. As suggested by other earlier, just copy any of the existing “.desktop” file and modify it to suite your needs.
Hope it helps!

Cheers.

By: airtonix

airtonix — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:29:02 +0000

lol the sled a rip off of vista…….give me a free-hopping break.

it is copy of spotlight…off which vista is imitating through grey&blue tinted corporate goggles.

By: Ted Haeger

Ted Haeger — Wed, 09 May 2007 03:00:45 +0000

Troy [10]:
Sorry for the lag in response. I had emailed the answer to Deek [8] and never posted here as a comment.

The trick is to create a launcher icon in /opt/gnome/share/applications. If you use gedit to open one of the icons inside that location, you can piece together how the categories are applied to different launchers.
–T

By: Troy Moreland

Troy Moreland — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:59:00 +0000

I have the same problem. What is the solution? Good example is after installing Firefox 2 (just extracting the download archive), I can’t figure out how to make that icon show up in the application menu!?