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Unable to add a gnome menu entry

Hello everybody and happy new year

I'm trying to add an entry to the gnome menu for every users of a FEDORA 14 system, both

Code:

xdg-desktop-menu install --novendor --mode system osean-programmer.desktop

and

Code:

desktop-file-install osean-programmer.desktop

do not work: I've got no new entry in the menu nor in the "alacarte" application, even if I "killall gnome-panel", logout or reboot the system.
Here's my .desktop file content:

Code:



#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open



[Desktop Entry]

Name=Programmateur boîtiers de communication

Name[fr]=Programmateur boîtiers de communication

Comment=Logiciel de programmation pour les boîtiers de communication pour plongeurs

Comment[fr]=Logiciel de programmation pour les boîtiers de communication pour plongeurs

TryExec=Programmateur-OSEAN

Exec=Programmateur-OSEAN

Icon=/usr/share/icons/osean-64x64.png

Type=Application

Categories=Utility;

StartupNotify=true

Terminal=0

X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.16

My real purpose it to make a RPM for an application, then adding the proper line to the "%post" script. Since it doesn't work by installing the RPM, I've test by hand without any success.

Subsidiary question:
How to add the application launcher to every user's Desktop during the RPM installation?

Any clue greatly appreciated

Quote:

Originally Posted by jf.argentino (Post 4212849)

Subsidiary question:
How to add the application launcher to every user's Desktop during the RPM installation?

I don't have access to a Fedora machine, but when I make rpms for SuSE I put a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/
If I want to test the menu entry prior to building the rpm I just manually create the .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ and then remove it again when I'm done.

If you put a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications and it doesn't show up in the GNOME menu you might need to specify additional Categories. Find the .desktop file for a menu entry that's in the part of the menu you want your icon to appear in and see what that says in the Categories line.