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Old 02-24-2005, 10:48 PM   #1
kiranprashant
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Angry How to create a menu group and application launcher?


Hi all,
This is my first mail to the forum, hope it will help me.

I want to make a menu group and an application launcher for my custom application, so i can create shortcuts for my application on the desktop and also in the Main Menu for both the desktops (Kde and gnome) for all users of that particular machin.

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prashant
 
Old 02-24-2005, 11:16 PM   #2
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in KDE you can use the kmenueditor.. You can access it by rightklicking the K menu.. Its relatively easy to use.. After that you can use that as a shortcut everywhere..

About gnome, I have no idea.. But I doubt them not having a graphical tool for it..
 
Old 02-25-2005, 03:18 AM   #3
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Hi,
Thanks for help.
But i want to make those menu groups and appl. launchers at the time of my application installation. As my installer is a shell script, i want to create it in shell script only.
waiting for reply.
 
Old 02-25-2005, 08:12 AM   #4
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ah.. Well in that case.. The custom entries are kept under ~/.local/share/applications/

Examine an allready existing entry to undersand the fundamentals, its pretty easy..
 
Old 02-25-2005, 11:29 PM   #5
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Well, i was unable to find the path you mentioned on Redhat Linux
 
Old 02-26-2005, 12:15 AM   #6
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well, RH is know to screw up standards.. (;

Okies, one way for you to find out where it is.. If yo have some custom menu entry, you can use that, if not, create one.. Then just do a
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locate unique_part_of_your_entry_name
Adn you should see a .desktop file emongst them.. Then youll know where redhat likes to keep em..
 
  


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