Alacarte Fedora 17

["Martin Sharpe" <mrsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When applying any changes to the gnome applications menu via alacarte the file - applications.menu, in the directory /home/user-name/.config/menus is modified (by alacarte) but no change to the menu occurs (for example showing or hiding a menu item) To make this work correctly alacarte needs to modify the file applications-gnome.menu  to allow items to change in the menu.  This requires a simple change to the file MenuEditor.py in the alacarte source code replacing the single occurance of applications.menu with applications-gnome.menu.

The best way to do this is to download the source rpm and extract the archive then extract the alacarte source and modify the file and create the new archive to overwrite the old one then use rpmbuild to build a new alacarte rpm module and use yum to reinstall this module. Once done alacarte works ok.

One more thing.

I upgraded from Fedora 15 to Fedora 17 and am running Fedora on VmWorkstation in Windows.  After  turning off the forced fallback mode and logging off and back in again gnome 3 works in the normal mode except for 3-D effects. Having got used to the fallback mode this is very different and my first real experience of the new gnome 3 shell. Overall Fedora 17 works fine in VmWorkstation apart from some problems with mouse operations. For example to resize windows I can only use the diagonals not the sides and when using software like the advanced tweak tool menu selections act a little like x-windows menu selections requiring one to press the return key to get the menu to stay. Anybody had similar problems?

 

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