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January 8, 2003

RedHat 8.0 users want to know: How do you customize the Main Menu? The answer is you can't... yet. There's some interesting innovations happening in this department, but we're supposedly waiting for Gnome and KDE to agree upon a standard way to solve the many menu-calculation problems before we can get a decent method of customizing the results.

I found this thread on RedHat 8.0's main menu quite interesting. Some great discussion on VFolders, the present and future of applications menus, and the need for even more standardization between the Gnome and KDE projects.

For the skip-to-the-end types, the definitive answer to the original question from a RedHat developer:

> I had trouble finding the equivalent XML files for individual users.
> Would that be files in
> '~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications.vfolder-info'?

Again, this was essentially nonworking in GNOME 2.0.1 and changed in 2.0.2. For Red Hat Linux 8 I'm hoping to put out an errata soon with the 2.0.2 fixes, but until then there's effectively no per-user menu in GNOME.