remaking menus in gnome (wiped applicaiton dir)

acetylcholine · 2006-07-02 22:00:31

The problem and how it happened (in convenient steps)

1. I installed alacarte from the aur as a way to edit my gnome menus.
2. I tried to change the icon of some program and it wouldn't change.
3. I figured it was maybe a permission problem so I started alacarte as root.
4. (it wasn't a permission problem--it jsut doesn't work) I went on to do other things still logged in as root.
5. I didn't like what I did so I clicked "Revert Changes"

6. It wiped all the application info

Q: Is there a way to rebuild my applicaiton info? All the apps are gone from the applications dir... that is, all the .desktops are deleted and this is the only one left
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

Help?

Gullible Jones · 2006-07-02 23:08:43

Ouch. Umm, yeah... I think you'll have to reinstall all the apps that had .desktop files. :shock:

acetylcholine · 2006-07-02 23:20:43

I'll do that. Ouch was right. Stupid gnome menus, I wish I could import the menus from xfce-panel into gnome... hmmmmmmm

Gullible Jones · 2006-07-03 00:01:23

Actually the .desktop files are standard, not gnome-specific...

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#1 2006-07-02 22:00:31

remaking menus in gnome (wiped applicaiton dir)

#2 2006-07-02 23:08:43

Re: remaking menus in gnome (wiped applicaiton dir)

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Re: remaking menus in gnome (wiped applicaiton dir)

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Re: remaking menus in gnome (wiped applicaiton dir)

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