Re: Question on Including packages in Start Menu as Icon

[Manilal K M <manilalkm gmail com>]

On 9/6/05, shekhar vaggu <vaggushekhar gmail com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
>  I am trying to pack a source package into rpm. I need to include the
> shortcut for my software as Start Menu icon and as well some more short cuts
> as an Icons unde r this start Menu icon,Like Sample->One and Sample->Two
> like this. I have went through one of the mail in the mailing list as how to
> include it in the existing categories how ever I need to create new Start
> Menu icon and under that few more.Any pointers would be greatly Helpful to
> me in this regard.
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Shekhar.
>  

hello Shekhar,
   Create a desktop file (for more info refer files in
/usr/share/applications ). and copy to /usr/share/applications/. A
sample desktop file is included here:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Nila Editor
Name[ml]=Nila Editor
Comment=Developed by C-DIT
Exec=/usr/bin/nila-editor
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/aarogya.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Office;
StartupNotify=true

regards
Manilal