How do edit/add items/folders to the start menu?

[Auke Kok]

On 09/06/2010 06:30 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In 4.6.2, how do I edit and/or add items and folders to the start menu? Is
> there some tool like gnome's "alacarte" menu editor?

FAQ item, answered in the ML FAQ, quote:

===
+ How do I edit the system application menu?

The menu is partially autogenerated by xfdesktop. If you want to just
delete or add one or two applications, add the proper .desktop file
(usually in /usr/share/applications). With the xfce4-menueditor, you can
completely customize the menu.
===

> Also (need both answered as GUI tools always leave things off), where
> do I go to manually edit these items?

the idea is that you should never have to edit them. If you do, there 
are only these options:

1) edit the files (as root) in /usr/share/applications directly. Please 
note that the next time that you upgrade a package that installs one of 
these files, your changes are probably lost. Also, if there is an error 
in these files here, you probably should just file a bugreport upstream 
or send the package maintainer a patch with the fix.

2) make an "overlay" desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ with 
the same filename and your modifications here. In case the package that 
provided the original desktop file has useful changes for you, you won't 
get them, and you're better off doing the upstream-patch/bugreport 
method in 1).

3) not use automatic menu's and use a manual menu editor. You'll lose 
all the goodies from using the autogenerated menus. You're better off 
doing the method at 1).

4) If there's apps missing, consider making a new one and doing the 
upstream submission method described in 1).

Cheers,

Auke