Re: Adding to Gnome Menus

[Hoover Mark A AISC CONT <HooverMA SUPSHIP NAVY MIL>]

> Subject: Re: Adding to Gnome Menus
>
> On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 14:16 -0500, Hoover Mark A AISC CONT wrote:
> > Does anybody have a link to information for adding a 
> sub-menu + application
> > items to the Application menu on the Gnome menu bar?  I've 
> spent most of the
> > day with Google trying to find out how to do this.  
> RedHat's pages have
> > information on removing items, but not on adding them.  
> I've found some
> > information which said to create a ~/.gnome2/vfolder 
> directory, but that
> > doesn't seem to work....:(
> 
> Look at installing your own .desktop files.  See the following for
> examples:
> rpm -ql gnome-utils | grep desktop
> /usr/share/applications/gnome-dictionary.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/gnome-gcalctool.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/gnome-gfloppy.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/gnome-gucharmap.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/gnome-search-tool.desktop

Apparently, I wasn't too far off base.  I started off with a *.desktop file
created by making a desktop shortcut and adding in the additional menu info.
Seems to work fine if I put it in /usr/share/applications.  Now if only I
could put them somewhere under my home directory.  There seem to be a lot of
references on how to do this (~/.gnome2/vfolder/applications, ~/.gnome/apps,
etc), but none of them seem to work.

I also had a hope of having Applications -> My folder -> My icons.  However,
this doesn't look like it's going to happen without editing files under
/etc.  If it were a single system, that'd be fine, but I really didn't want
to have to make that kind of change on 70 some systems.