Question on menus

[Andrew Robinson]

Use this after a change:

update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/application


On 10/31/07, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 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
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