How to change/edit menus in xfce4 on xubuntu 9.10

[Chris G]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 04:55:04PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On 04/02/2010 16:45, Chris G wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 04:42:03PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> >> On 04/02/2010 15:41, Chris G wrote:
> >>> I'm quite happy to edit things directly if necessary.
> >>
> >> Look in /usr/share/applications to get the correct .desktop file.
> >>
> > I did that, there isn't one for AisleRiot.  I *guess* therefore the
> > menu must be generated from the 'old style' /usr/share/menu/aisleriot,
> > however that is as follows:-
> > 
> >     ?package(aisleriot):needs="X11" section="Games/Card" \
> >             title="Gnome Solitaire Games" command="/usr/games/sol" \
> >             icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/aisleriot.xpm"
> >     ?package(aisleriot):needs="X11" section="Games/Card" \
> >             title="Gnome FreeCell" command="/usr/games/sol --variation freecell" \
> >             icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/freecell.xpm"
> > 
> > So is supposed to generate two entries.
> > 
> On Debian (and thus Ubuntu), you may have two menus. The freedesktop.org
> menu and the Debian (Ubuntu) menu, which predates the fd.o one, and is
> beginning to be slightly deprecated (but is supported by quite some
> window manager in Debian/Ubuntu).
> 
> So it'd help if you told us in which menu it appears (and wether the
> 'menu' package is installed).
> 
I'm talking about the menu that appears as "Applications" in the
xfce4-panel and also appears as "Applications" when you right click on
the background.


> Not sure how the menu are organised in Ubuntu, but in Debian we have the
> Xfce (fd.o) menu at root (where you have submenus like Accessories,
> Graphics, Multimedia etc. with icons), then a submenu called Debian (so
> maybe Ubuntu for you) where you have categories (without icons).
> 
It's xubuntu rather than Ubuntu.  It sounds like I'm talking about
what you call the "Xfce (fd.o) menu", it certainly has the submenus
you refer to.


> The first one is autogenerated at runtime using /usr/share/applications
> and .local/share/applications .desktop files. The latter is generated
> when applications are installed, using files from /usr/share/menu/
> 
Aahh!!  A grep for 'aisleriot' in /usr/share/applications shows that
it's entry there is sol.desktop, that's what has been confusing me. 

Thanks for the help, I think I can sort things out now.

-- 
Chris Green