Add categories to "game" menu item

[Rodrigo Coacci]

On 8/12/06, Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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BTW xfburn shows up in "Archiving" (I guess that's the english word), but
(also I guess) I should show up in Multimedia->CD Recording, just like
K3B.....


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Abraços,
      Rodrigo
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