Re: FC2 menus

[Mike Ramirez <mike thexxxhost com>]

Hi 

In preferences KDE has a menu editor application.  Here is the path for
it:  /usr/bin/kmenuedit  I'm not sure which package it is part of for
KDE.  

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:07, Bryan K. Wright wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> 	I have an application menu that we've been using for a few
> years now under KDE 2.2.2 on about a hundred RH7.*-based systems.
> It's just a tree under /etc/X11/applnk, like this:
> 
> applnk
> |-- Communication
> |   |-- InstantMessaging
> |   |-- Mail
> |   `-- News
> |-- Computation
> |-- DataAnalysis
> |-- Design
> |-- Development
> |-- Editors
> ..... and so on.
> 
> Each directory has a .directory file, giving the name.  Within the directories
> are *.desktop files.  I'd like to take this tree, update it for
> FC2, and use it as part of a new standard configuration for our department.
> 
> 	My original thought was to edit /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
> so that it only contained the following:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN"
>  "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd";>
> <Menu>
>   <Name>Applications</Name>
>   <LegacyDir>/etc/X11/applnk</LegacyDir>
> </Menu> 
> 
> I thought that "LegacyDir" would do the right thing, and create the 
> desired menu tree.  Unfortunately, what I end up with is a start menu
> with no aplications at all.
> 
> 	Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong here?
> 
> 						Thanks in advance,
> 						Bryan
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