menueditor

• What is menueditor ?
  • Menueditor is an applications to create menu to be later able to apply them to groups.
• Where to find it ?

  • The menueditor is part of the package edubuntu-menueditor and is found under Applications/Systems Tools/Edubuntu menu editor.

• Interface presentation

  

• The interface is very simple, it consist of a 2 column tree-view.
  • The left column Contain the icons and entry names,
  • The right one contain a check box to toggle between hide/show for the items.
  • Items in the tree-view have context menu available, depending of the items, and where it comes from you might have more option available in the context menu
  • A menu consist of 2 types of items:
    • Desktop entry, that usually launch application
    • Sub-menus, that can containt other sub-menu and desktop entry

playing with sub-menus

Adding a submenu to the menu

• Submenu can be added anywhere in the menu tree, to create a new submenu, follow the following simple steps:
  1. decide where you want to create the submenu and right-click,

  2. a context menu appear, click on Add Sub-menu,

     

  3. a dialog box appear and ask you for the name and a comment for the menu,

     

     • The name will be displayed as the submenu name,
     • The comment will appear when the mouse stays over the menu for a while.

  4. click on OK to create then menu entry.

     

Editing Menu

• It's only possible to edit and delete sub-menu you have created, copied or moved. Context menu activate items only for action you can perform.
• editing name or comment

  • Select the sub-menu you want to edit, do a right-click and select Edit Sub-menu.

  • a dialog box appear containing the current menu name, change the appropriate value and press OK

    

  • the interface now show the new name for the menu.

    

• Deleting or Hiding item
  • Difference between deleting and hiding.
    • Deleting an item can only be done for created or copied item.
    • Hiding item can be done to any item.
  • Usualy you will want to delete items you have created or moved, and hide all other items.

  • To delete an item, simply right-click on the item you want to delete and select the Delete Item from the sub menu.

  • To hide an item, simply uncheck the checkbox on the right.
    • When hiding a sub-menu, all items in the sub-menu are hidden,

      If an application that goes in this sub-menu is installed afterward the item will show up in the menu.

• Copying/Moving item
  • Items in menu can be copied to another place, to do so simply drag and drop the item in the menu.
  • Items in the tree cannot be moved, but can be copied and then hidden.
  • This is the way the menueditor is used to add applications in custom sub-menu, simply select the item you want in your menu, drag it over your sub-menu and release it. The item will appear into the sub-menu.
• Saving your work

  • Select File/Save from the menu

  • Browse where you want to save your file and enter a name, you will need to add the .tar.gz extension as well.

profilemanager

• What is profilemanager ?
• Where to find it ?
• overview of the main window.
  • groups
  • menus
  • associations
  • import menus
    • naming the menu
  • delete menus from the system.
  • adding associations
    • group-menu
    • menu-group
  • removing association
  • saving
• showing system groups
  • what are they