Menu in Gnome not editable

you can use applications:/// in nautilus for warty. Hoary/GNOME 2.10 will
probably not have a graphical editor. You can install menu/menu-xdg to have a
debian submenu with all the suff installed.

Is there any chance that Hoary+1/Gnome 2.12 will have a graphical menu editor again?

It's very annoying not to be able to edit the default menus, when it was
possible in the past.

Probably for the next release yes

tagging that upstream

*** Bug 12550 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

It is possible to change the menu by creating a new .desktop file in
/usr/share/applications

http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/menuediting.html
the above link will give you an idea of how to change the menus.
basically you have to add a .desktop file for each item for the standardization
is not gui.

Hope this helps you.

*** Bug 13708 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

is there literally no change of a simple menu editor, even if it was only
system-wide? I am happy as it is but I do think it looks a bit unprofessional
and I'm slightly concerned that ubuntu will suffer because of this bug.

M

I think that everybody agree than having a menu editor would be nice, patches
are welcome ...

in the meantime I will get a wiki page going, based on the link posted helpfully
above by tony stegall. It'll be at GnomeMenuEditingHowTo

Denu (http://denu.sourceforge.net/) supports editing Gnome 2.10 menu. Maybe we
should include it for Hoary. It is originally built for Gentoo, so some
tweakings might be necessary.

There is also a program posted on the forums which might be considered for
hoary. If so, the quicker it gets in the better for bug testing purposes.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=19673

M

This upload fixes the issue:

 gnome-panel (2.11.1-0ubuntu1) breezy; urgency=low
 .
   * Sync with Debian.
   * New upstream version:
     - add an "Edit Menus" menu item for the menu button and bar
       (Ubuntu: #5471).
     - fix "dialogs pop up under panel dialogs" issue.
     - move "Properties" above "Delete This Panel" in the context menu.
     - add preference for disabling autocompletion in the run dialog.
     - remove "Run application" from the menus.
     - keep up with latest libgnome-menu API.
     - warnings fixes.
   * debian/application-default-icon.png.uue:
     - default icon for menu entries.
   * debian/control.in:
     - updated for the ubuntu debug packages.
     - updated the Build-Depends, Depends, Recommends.
   * debian/gnome-panel-data.postinst:
     - use laptop-detect to determine the default configuration.
   * debian/panel-default-setup-laptop.entries:
     - laptop profile.
   * debian/patches/01_defaults_add_notifarea.patch:
     - debian config not needed.
   * debian/patches/01_layout.patch:
     - ubuntu menus changes.
   * debian/patches/02_clockapplet_reload_timezone.patch:
     - this feature works without patch with the current versions.
   * debian/patches/03_libpanel-applet_X11_link_missing.patch:
     - not needed.
   * debian/patches/03_paneltranslations.patch:
     - translations update.
   * debian/patches/04_default_panel_config.patch:
     - change to the default panel configuration.
   * debian/patches/05_submenus.patch:
     - changed the order of the administration and preferences menus.
   * debian/patches/07_time_cmd.patch:
     - use gksudo to set the clock.
   * debian/patches/09_default_icons.patch:
     - shows an icon if the .desktop hasn't one.
   * debian/patches/99_reautogenization.patch:
     - not needed.
   * debian/rules:
     - install the default menu icon.
     - updated for ubuntu dbg packages.
   * debian/ubuntu-about.desktop:
     - menu entry.
   * debian/watch:
     - updated.
   * libpanel-applet/Makefile:
     - build with -lX11.