Add categories to "game" menu item

[Erik Harrison]

On 8/12/06, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> Michael Verret wrote:
> > Kind people,
> >
> > First some info about me and then my problem. I am part of the Zenwalk
> > Linux team. One of my tasks is running the gaming site for Zenwalk,
> > ZenGamer. My problem is that we have over 90 packages there and when a
> > user installs the games, they all are displayed under the "games" menu
> > section. This gets very large and "scrolling" kicks in once you have
> > enough games installed. We do use the
> > "usr/share/applications/*.desktop" files correctly as in
> > "Categories=Application;Game;Action;" but no "Action" submenu of
> > "Games" is displayed.
> >
> > I would like the XFCE menu to display game submenus as the *.desktop
> > files dictate. For example, I would like to see the following:
> >
> > games: Action
> > ------------ Arcade
> > ------------ Board
> > ------------ Card
> > ------------ Children/Education
> > ------------ Emulation
> > ------------ First Person Shooter
> > ------------ Game Engines
> > ------------ Programming Games
> > ------------ Puzzles
> > ------------ Racing
> > ------------ Roguelike
> > ------------ Simulation
> > ------------ Sports
> > ------------ Strategy
> >
> > Do you know how I can accomplish this? Is there a config file for XFCE
> > somewhere that sets these options? Or is there certain submenu items
> > allowed, i.e. Action, Arcade, Child, but no Roguelike. Either way,
> > none of the submenus ever show up.
>
> Well, you could read the comments in the default menu.xml file and it
> would tell you about changing the system menu's style from "simple" to
> "multilevel".  This isn't extensively tested, as I don't use it myself,
> but give it a try.

See, now I feel stupid for not looking.

This works fine for me

>
>         -brian
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Erik

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