Question on menus

Ryan Daly daly at ctcnet.net
Thu Nov 1 01:10:30 CET 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:22 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Ryan Daly wrote:
> > All:
> > 
> > I'm a brand-new user to Xfce.  I have a question on the menu system...
> > 
> > I have a number of .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications.  The
> > system menu is picking them up and placing them under "Other."
> > 
> > I'd like them to be placed under a totally different sub-menu that I
> > have defined.  I have been looking at ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml
> > and cannot figure out how to include them in my defined menu.
> > 
> > Is that possible to do, or do I need edit menu.xml to include each and
> > every .desktop file that I have?
> 
> Go read the desktop entry spec over at freedesktop.org -- you'll need to 
> properly set the Categories= line in your .desktop files.

I've read that.

My problem is: what do I need to do to the above mentioned menu.xml to
actually include those .desktop files in my custom menu?




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