Question on menus

[Ryan Daly]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 18:22 -0600, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> Set your XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable in X

I don't think that's it since my desktop entries are being picked up,
just not in the menu that I have defined.

> 
> On Oct 31, 2007 6:10 PM, Ryan Daly <daly at ctcnet.net> 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?
> >
> >
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