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diff --git a/gnome2-user-guide/C/goseditmainmenu.xml b/gnome2-user-guide/C/goseditmainmenu.xml index 547278c..9e1a9c0 100644 --- a/gnome2-user-guide/C/goseditmainmenu.xml +++ b/gnome2-user-guide/C/goseditmainmenu.xml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <chapter id="menubar"> - <title>Menubar</title> + <title>Panel Menubar</title> <!-- preserve id for backwards compatibility: 2.12 --> <anchor id="goseditmainmenu-1"/><!-- Working With Menus --> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <anchor id="menus-introduction"/><!-- Introduction to Menus --> <highlights> - <para>This chapter describes how to use the GNOME Desktop Menubar.</para> + <para>This chapter describes how to use the GNOME Panel Menubar.</para> </highlights> <indexterm> <primary>menus</primary> @@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ <secondary>introduction</secondary> </indexterm> - <para>The menubar at the top of the GNOME Desktop, in the <link linkend="top-panel">Top Edge Panel</link>, is your main point of access to GNOME. Use the <guimenu>Applications</guimenu> menu to launch applications, the <guimenu>Places</guimenu> to open locations on your computer or network, and the <guimenu>Desktop</guimenu> to customize your system, get help with GNOME, and log out of GNOME or shut down your computer.</para> + <para>The panel menubar is your main point of access to GNOME. Use the <guimenu>Applications</guimenu> menu to launch applications, the <guimenu>Places</guimenu> to open locations on your computer or network, and the <guimenu>Desktop</guimenu> to customize your system, get help with GNOME, and log out of GNOME or shut down your computer.</para> <para>The following sections describe these three menus.</para> - <tip><para>The menubar is in fact a panel object: you can move the menubar to another panel, or have more than one instance of the menubar in your panels. For more on this, see <xref linkend="panel-menus"/>.</para></tip> + <tip><para>By default, the panel menubar is on the <link linkend="top-panel">Top Edge Panel</link>. But like any other panel object, you can move the menubar to another panel, or have more than one instance of the menubar in your panels. For more on this, see <xref linkend="panel-menus"/>.</para></tip> <section id="applications-menu"> <title>Applications Menu</title> @@ -88,242 +88,33 @@ </itemizedlist> <para>For more on logging out and shutting down, see <xref linkend="shutdown"/>.</para> - - <!-- translators: rest of this file is still being worked on and will change a lot --> </section> - <section id="goseditmainmenu-54"> - <title>Customizing Your Menus</title> + <section id="menu-editor"> + <title>Customizing the Panel Menubar</title> + <!-- preserve id for backwards compatibility: 2.12 --> + <anchor id="goseditmainmenu-54"/> <indexterm> <primary>menus</primary> <secondary>customizing</secondary> </indexterm> + <para>You can modify the contents of the following menus:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para><guimenu>Applications</guimenu> menu</para> </listitem> <listitem> - <para><guimenu>Desktop Preferences</guimenu> menu</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - <para>You use the following GNOME Desktop components to customize menus:</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>Menus on panels</para> + <para><menuchoice><guimenu>Desktop</guimenu><guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu></menuchoice> submenu</para> </listitem> <listitem> - <para><application>Nautilus</application> file manager</para> - </listitem> + <para><menuchoice><guimenu>Desktop</guimenu><guisubmenu>Administration</guisubmenu></menuchoice> submenu</para> + </listitem> </itemizedlist> - <para>When you use panels to customize your menus, you use the menu item popup -menu. For more information, see <xref linkend="menubar"/>.</para> - <para>When you use the file manager to customize your menus, you must access the <guimenu>Applications</guimenu> menu or the <guimenu>Desktop Preferences</guimenu> -menu from within the file manager. To access the <guimenu>Applications</guimenu> -menu or the <guimenu>Desktop Preferences</guimenu> menu, open a file manager -window. </para> - <para>To access menus -in the file manager, access one of the following URIs in the file manager:</para> - <informaltable frame="topbot"> - <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0"> - <colspec colwidth="50*"/> - <colspec colwidth="50*"/> - <thead> - <row rowsep="1"> - <entry> - <para>Menu</para> - </entry> - <entry> - <para>Enter this URI</para> - </entry> - </row> - </thead> - <tbody> - <row> - <entry valign="top"> - <para><guimenu>Applications</guimenu> menu</para> - </entry> - <entry valign="top"> - <para> - <command>applications:///</command> - </para> - </entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry valign="top"> - <para><guimenu>Desktop Preferences</guimenu> menu</para> - </entry> - <entry valign="top"> - <para> - <command>preferences:///</command> - </para> - </entry> - </row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> - </informaltable> - <para>For more information on the file manager, see <citetitle>Nautilus File -Manager</citetitle>.</para> - <section id="goseditmainmenu-61"> - <title>To Add a Menu</title> - <indexterm> - <primary>menus</primary> - <secondary>adding</secondary> - </indexterm> - <para>To add a menu, perform the following steps:</para> - <orderedlist> - <listitem> - <para>In a file manager window, access the location where you want -to add the menu. For example, if you want to add a menu to the <guimenu>Applications</guimenu> menu, enter <command>applications:///</command> URI.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Create Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. An untitled folder -is added to the menu. The name of the folder is selected.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Type a name for the folder, then press <keycap>Return</keycap>. </para> - </listitem> - </orderedlist> - <para>The next time that you log out then log in again, the menu is in the -assigned location.</para> - </section> - <section id="goseditmainmenu-55"> - <title>To Add a Launcher to a Menu</title> - <indexterm> - <primary>menus</primary> - <secondary>adding launchers to</secondary> - </indexterm> - <para>To add a launcher to a menu, perform the following steps:</para> - <orderedlist> - <listitem> - <para>Right-click on any item in the menu to which you want to add -the launcher.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Entire menu</guimenu><guimenuitem>Add new item to this menu</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. A <guilabel>Create Launcher</guilabel> dialog is displayed.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Enter the properties of the launcher in the <guilabel>Create -Launcher</guilabel> dialog. For more information on the elements in the <guilabel>Create Launcher</guilabel> dialog, see <emphasis>Working With Panels</emphasis>.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.</para> - </listitem> - </orderedlist> - </section> - <section id="goseditmainmenu-63"> - <title>To Add a Launcher to an Empty Menu</title> - <para>To add a launcher to an empty menu, perform the following steps:</para> - <orderedlist> - <listitem> - <para>In a file manager window, access the menu where you want to -add the launcher. </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Create Launcher</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. A <guilabel>Create -Launcher</guilabel> dialog is displayed.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Enter the properties of the launcher in the <guilabel>Create -Launcher</guilabel> dialog. For more information on the elements in the <guilabel>Create Launcher</guilabel> dialog, see <emphasis>Working With Panels</emphasis>.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.</para> - </listitem> - </orderedlist> - </section> - <section id="goseditmainmenu-56"> - <title>To Copy a Launcher to a Menu</title> - <indexterm> - <primary>menus</primary> - <secondary>copying launchers to</secondary> - </indexterm> - <para>To copy an existing launcher to a menu, perform the following -steps:</para> - <orderedlist> - <listitem> - <para>In a file manager window, access the location from which you -want to copy the launcher. For example, if you want to copy a launcher from -the <guimenu>Applications</guimenu> menu, enter <command>applications:///</command> URI.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Select the launcher that you want to copy, then choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Copy File</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>In a file manager window, access the location to which you -want to copy the launcher.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Paste Files</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. The launcher is added to the new location.</para> - </listitem> - </orderedlist> - <para>Alternatively, you can drag the launcher from one location to another.</para> - <para>The next time that you log out then log in again, the launcher is in -the new menu location.</para> - </section> - <section id="goseditmainmenu-62"> - <title>To Edit the Properties of a Menu</title> - <indexterm> - <primary>menus</primary> - <secondary>editing properties</secondary> - </indexterm> - <para>To edit the properties of a menu, perform the following -steps:</para> - <orderedlist> - <listitem> - <para>Right-click on any item in the menu that you want to edit.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Entire menu</guimenu><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. A <guilabel>Launcher Properties</guilabel> dialog is displayed.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Modify the properties of the menu in the <guilabel>Launcher -Properties</guilabel> dialog. For more information on the elements in the <guilabel>Launcher Properties</guilabel> dialog, see <emphasis>Working With Panels</emphasis>.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.</para> - </listitem> - </orderedlist> - </section> - <section id="goseditmainmenu-57"> - <title>To Edit a Menu Item</title> - <indexterm> - <primary>menus</primary> - <secondary>editing menu items</secondary> - </indexterm> - <para>To edit a menu item, perform the following steps:</para> - <orderedlist> - <listitem> - <para>Right-click on the item that you want to edit.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Choose <guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>. A <guilabel>Launcher Properties</guilabel> dialog is displayed.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Modify the properties of the launcher in the <guilabel>Launcher -Properties</guilabel> dialog. For more information on the elements in the <guilabel>Launcher Properties</guilabel> dialog, see <emphasis>Working With Panels</emphasis>.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.</para> - </listitem> - </orderedlist> - </section> - <section id="goseditmainmenu-58"> - <title>To Delete an Item from a Menu</title> - <indexterm> - <primary>menus</primary> - <secondary>deleting menu items</secondary> - </indexterm> - <para>To delete an item from a menu, use the menu item popup menu. -To delete an item from a menu, perform the following steps:</para> - <orderedlist> - <listitem> - <para>Right-click on the item that you want to delete.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Choose <guimenuitem>Remove this item</guimenuitem>. </para> - </listitem> - </orderedlist> - </section> + + <para>To edit the items in these menus, right-click on the panel menubar, and choose <guimenuitem>Edit Menus</guimenuitem>. The <guilabel>Edit Menus</guilabel> window opens.</para> + <para>The <guilabel>Edit Menus</guilabel> window lists the menus in the left pane. Click on the expander arrows to show or hide submenus. Choose a menu in the left pane to see its items listed in the right pane.</para> + <para>To remove an item from a menu, deselect the check box beside the item in the list. The item can be added back to the menu by selecting the check box once again.</para> + </section> </chapter> |