Hi,

I wan't to add certain games to the Main Menu->Games->Power Games. The Power Games sub menu doesn't exist by default. I want to know how to add the new submenu (and the new launchers under it) at one place but it should reflect for all users.

Sorry, but to give an analogy, in Windows I would login as admin, and Explore the Start Menu and add the shortcuts under "All Users" folder rather than under "Administrator folder.

I remember seeing something similar to this under FC1 or RH9 but I'm not able to find it now - was I dreaming about this or is it there? Please tell me how I can get this done.

Huh! Also found that I wasn't able to do this even for a single user! Help me on that too please.

-Sarav

GNOME, KDE or other?

Hi,

The question is for GNOME.

-Sarav

GNOME menu editing is not enabled by default, and I haven't found a way to get menu editing in GNOME. You can try the following as root:
cd /usr/share/applications
if you then do ls * you will see .desktop files take a look at one of these files to see the setup. You could try this, it might work.
Open up your favorite text editor, you will probably have to do this in you home directory, unless you login as root graphically. Anyway try this and see if it works:
[desktop]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Game Name
Comment=eg. First Person Shoot
Exec=/path/to/game/executable
Icon=/path/to/icon/to/use.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Applications;Game;"Power Game";
StartupNotify=true
Save this as gamename.desktop, if you are root you can just save this directly to /usr/share/applications, if you are a user save to your home directory then:
su
chown root:root gamename.desktop
mv gamename.desktop /usr/share/applications

Logout of Gnome and then back in, the game should now show up in your Menu for all users.

I don't know if this will create a submenu, I haven't tried creating any new submenus.

HTH