Taking another peek...

[Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:08:41 -0700
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> > Well from what I understand the actual whatever.desktop files that
> > your programs/packages install are never changed... and Alacarte
> > just has a 'memory' of the changes (like renamed ones, moved ones,
> > ones you've added icons to) you've made to them  -  but doesn't
> > alter the actual files.  So if you made a new unix user and logged
> > in you'd get the default menu from whatever.desktop files all over
> > again.
> 
> Well, sure.   It's not going to edit any system-wide files.  How could
> it, as a non-root user?  It should be editing and adding files as the
> current user and storing things that you changed in ~/.config/ and
> ~/.local/.  You'll get the same behavior in Xfce or GNOME.

That would be a nice feature to have. The current menu editor is
pretty all-or-nothing.

Yours,
Morten
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