Re: GNOME Applications menu question

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On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 15:37 +0000, Maccy wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can add another group under 'Applications' on the
> top panel of the GNOME desktop?
> 
> I can easily add an item to the Applications menu by creating a .desktop
> file in the /usr/share/applications directory. But I work in Astronomy and what I want to do is
> create a new 'Astronomy' group containing links to the most popular
> installed Astro software on one system, then distribute the relevant
> config files to all my other machines.
> 
> Documentation seems scarce....

If you want to do it by file editing, you want to look at the .menu
files in /etc/xdg/menus (they are a bit confusing at first).

If you just want to edit your own menus, theres a gui for that somewhere
in the preference menus, look for "Main Menu". It lets you add new
menus. 

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