Question on menus

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Andrew Robinson wrote:
> Use this after a change:
> 
> update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/application

No, that's not necessary.  That only affects mime-type associations.

	-brian


> 
> 
> 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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