Question on menus

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Ryan Daly wrote:
> 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?

Nothing.  It should get pulled in as a part of the system menu -- isn't 
this already the case?  You mention that they were showing up in the 
'Other' menu.  If you've modified the .desktop files and the changes 
aren't being reflected, you can try removing ~/.cache/xfce4/desktop/ and 
restarting xfdesktop.

	-brian