Re: add item to menu in gnome

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On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 20:28, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Michael Knepher <limbo@bluethingy.com> writes: 
> > If you already have an acroread.desktop file, just add the Categories
> > line. The second category entry ("Office") determines which submenu it
> > shows up in, and the X-Red-Hat-Base will force it into the main
> > directory (if you want it under the Extras menu, use
> > X-Red-Hat-Extra). 
> 
> Editing the .desktop files isn't the way you're supposed to do it;
> they aren't marked as %config files so RPM upgrades will lose your
> edits.
> 

> Instead, to add a desktop file to a particular menu, put an 
> <Include>foo.desktop</Include> line in
> /etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu, under the appropriate <Folder>.

That's a bit more elegant. I figured it was a bad hack, but, hey, it
worked for me ;o). 

> >  /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/applications.vfolder-info
> 
> This file isn't used, it's in /etc/X11/desktop-menus (yeah I know the
> file shouldn't be installed, fixed in rawhide).
>  
> >       <Exclude>vumeter.desktop</Exclude>
> 
> You can also do <Include> here.
> 

Is there Red Hat-centric documentation anywhere on editing the menus?
Are user-specific menu configurations supported, and if so where would
the files go?

This sounds like a job for a quick mini-HOW-TO.

-- 
Michael Knepher <limbo@bluethingy.com>



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