adding an item to menu

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun May 22 14:12:02 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 05:53 -0700, cfk wrote:
> How does one go about adding an executable program to the menu in Fedora Core.
> 
> I know how to add an item from the menu to the taskbar, or to create a 
> launcher by right clicking the desktop, but I havent figured out how to add 
> an item the the menu yet.
> 
> This is the menu accessible by clicking the icon of the redhat in either gnome 
> or KDE. I would appreciate guidance applicable to both.

You can create a "desktop entry" file such as the ones you'll find
in /usr/share/applications. A spec for the desktop entry file can be
found at: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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