[PLUG] Gnome Panel Menus

[Sandy Herring]

    Working With Panels
    1.7.2. To Add a Drawer to a Panel

    From any menu

    You can add a menu as a drawer object to a panel. To add a menu as a
    drawer to a panel, open the menu from the panel. Right-click on any
    launcher in the menu, then choose Entire menu->Add this as drawer to
    panel.

Sandy

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: 
> I've spent quite a bit of time looking but I can't find a decent anwser or 
> pointer.  Possibly I've got the wrong terms.
>    I just installed RHL 8.0 from a downloaded set of ISOs.  No upgrade
> since I had a new SCSI hard drive and contoller and a mostly stock
> Workstation configuration.  Back in my RHL 7.x days I had my desktop
> pretty much like I wanted it and I did save all the .desktop files for use
> later.  The problem is I can't figure out how to get a drop-down (pop-up)
> menu on the panel likeI had before.  There is nothing I can find at the
> Gnome site or the on-machine help that explains how.
>    On the old system I had a directory in ~/.gnome/apps/ called Connect 
> and it had subdirectories which had .desktop files.  Thinking I'd be 
> clever I copied the Connect directory in to .gnome/apps/ (and 
> .gnome2/apps/ to be sure) but no joy.  Any ideas or pointers to how to do 
> this?
> 
> This does bring up one of my really big conplaints about the Linux
> desktop.  There seems to be a race to have the 'coolest' looking desktop
> but no real effort to make it personally functional.  Have you noticed it
> is very difficult to really customise.
>    On the up side I didn't have to fiddle with the /etc/X11/ stuff to get
> ssh-agent running - it is.  I just open a window and do a ssh-add and can
> securely connect to the world with minimal hassle.
> 
> 
> Rod
> -- 
>   "Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for..."
> 
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