Where are the Gnome "Applications" and "System" menus?

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Tue May 20 14:05:43 UTC 2008


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:33:36AM +0000, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > That was the clue I needed, that the menu entries are stored in
> > .desktop files.
> 
> Yea, I discovered long ago that the menu entries are in .desktop
> files, but I'm still mystified by who decides which menu entries
> go in which menu in what order.
> 
> I usually find it easier to grep -r /usr/share/applications when
> looking for something than to hunt through the menus :-).
> 
It's all driven by XML files in /etc/xdg/menus

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Chris Green




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