Question on menus

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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.

	-brian