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By refdoc at 2005-08-24 17:04
How the menu is build:
/etc/xdg/applications is a Glade xml file, building the application menu.
It uses category/directory entries in /usr/share/desktop-directories (e.g. "Games", Graphics" etc), application entries in /usr/share/applications and icons in /usr/share/pixmaps.
A well-build application entry in the directory /usr/share/applications will simply be added to the existing menu. To add a new category-directory to the menu, both /etc/xdg/applications must be altered and a new entry in /usr/share/desktop-directories must be added.
Adding a an application to the menu:
Application menu items are text files with following compulsory content:
Menu categories can be nested multiple times, but this should be discouraged. The beauty of the new Gnome menu system is its simplicity.
The multiplicity of legacy menu systems in gnome and competing menu systems in KDE etc can make menus in Gnome quite messy. My personal solution was to search out all entries added by the legacy systems and adding them in the new way. Quite a few (even new-ish Gnome applications) put their entries into are the subdirectories of /usr/share/apps. After addition of a line
Category=Applications;<MyApplicationCategory>;
the entries there can simply be moved to /usr/share/applications.
For reasons unknown to me sometime new menu items do not immediately appear in the menu. Usually this is solved by restarting X.
Hi there there is no /etc/xdg/applications in my LinuxSuse Gnome
So how can I edit my applications menu?
There is also no usr/share/applications/.desktop (some other guy keeps on telling this is the place to be foor editing applications menu in gnome.
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So how can I edit my applications menu?
There is also no usr/share/applications/.desktop (some other guy keeps on telling this is the place to be foor editing applications menu in gnome.
Cicade
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