GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 91811
Cannot edit Desktop Preferences menu
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Attempt to change Desktop Preferences to "New Menu" => error message "Error writing file 'applications:/Preferences/.directory': Access denied" To Recreate =========== - right-click on 'Applications:Desktop Preferences:Font' - select 'Entire Menu:Properties' from pop-up - change name from 'Desktop Preferences' to 'Test' => error message displayed indicating invalid permissions "Error writing file 'applications:/Preferences/.directory': Access denied" There is no 'preferences' directory or 'preferences.vfolder-info' file present in $HOME/.gnome2/vfolders/ but there is an 'applications' directory and a file 'applications.vfolder-info'
Are you using the same old build as in bug 91810? If so, you need to be running latest CVS.
just checked this on sun's beta2 build5 - cvs 27th aug. I'll check it again on build6 which is due out today.
Shane? ping?
sorry guys - just checked it on our build7 and its still the same - its cvs 27th august (i think) do i still need a later build?
Yeah, probably ought to be more recent than that- 09/02 or thereabouts should have a lot of fixes, I think.
ok - i'll sort out a more recent build... and for bug #91810 as well... cheers
just tested this against the multihead branch of gnome-panel and the gnome-2-0 branch of gnome-vfs dated 12th august... this bug is present - still the same as first described above.
Fixed in latest CVS by adding a preferences.vfolder-info-default file, so that we can have a write directory other than the orignal file source (which is read-only): 2002-09-16 Alex Graveley <alex@ximian.com> * modules/vfolder/Makefile.am (vfolder_DATA): Add preferences.vfolder-info-default. * modules/vfolder/preferences.vfolder-info-default.in: Create this defaults file, which is simply a folder extending preferences-all-users:. This fixes the problem of not having a writedir when the .vfolder-info file doesn't exist, causing content changes to be written to the original system-global file, which is read-only.