Re: Adding to Gnome Menus

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

> Subject: Re: Adding to Gnome Menus
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 

Ok, I seem to be gettling closer here.  If I alter the applications.menu
file in ~/.config/menus, I can add items to the menu.  However, something
seems to be overwriting the applications.menu file upon login.