Re: How to include a package in the Applications Menu

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On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:11:22PM +0530, Manilal K M wrote:

>   I am trying to pack a source package into rpm. I need to include the
> shortcut for my software in the Applications --> Office Menu. I am
> using FC-4 and GNOME-2.10 . I have included the 'Group' macro in the
> SPEC file with value: "Applications/Productivity". But after
> installing it I couldn't get the icon in the Applications menu. Is
> this the right way to attain this? If not please give me some
> guidelines.

No, package "groups" have no relation to your desktop menus.

Include a /usr/share/applications/name.desktop file in the package
with the correct Category field.  See the installed files in that
directory for examples.

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