[Novices] add to fedora menus

[Eric Beversluis]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:02 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > OK--what am I missing? According to the Gnome desktop menu help, I'm
> > > supposed to be able to find a way to add new programs to my menus by
> > > right clicking (somewhere). However the only options I see anywhere are
> > > Help, Remove from Panel, Move, and Lock to Panel. When I right click a
> > > blank area in the panel I get an option to "Add to Panel," but that
> > > option doesn't include anything about adding apps. You'd think Desktop,
> > > Preferences or Desktop, System Settings might be the solution, but No.
> > Update: In installed GnuCash from an RPM and it was added automatically
> > to the menus. I was able to get panel entries for OO.o programs by
> > dragging the programs (e.g., sbase) from the file browser to the
> > panel--but couldn't find any relevant icons to go with them. Further,
> > none of the openoffice.org programs show up in the "Open With" dialog
> > box. So I can't even tell the computer to open my OO.o desktop document
> > icons with openoffice. OO.o (2.0.2) installed from a tarball that
> > included multiple rpms. Presumably there are some icons somewhere in
> > OO's set of files, but I haven't found them.
> 
> Did this OOo install as part of the distribution installation or did you
> add it via a tgz, etc...?

Installed from a downloaded tgz from OO.o with 2.0.2. So that part is
parallel to what I did with GnuCash, tho I got the GnuCash rpm from
rpm.pbone and the OO.o from OO.o.
EB
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