Adding entries to the main menu.

[Ryan Golhar]

It depends on what you mean by adding items to the menu.  If you mean
adding submenus to the main menu for all users, you can modify the file
/etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu, and add a corresponding
.directory file to /usr/share/desktop-menu-files

To to menu items to a menu, you just need to determine the keywords for
that menu group and add a .desktop to /usr/share/applications
corresponding to the menu item.  

I've built a bunch of RPMs for bioinformatics software and have to add
menu items for the GUI apps and this is exactly how I did it.  

Red Hat's system menus use the vfolder spec - so the menus are "virtual
folders" that are built using the XML file
/etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu This file references the
*.directory files in /usr/share/desktop-menu-files, and the *.desktop
files scattered about the system (the new default location is
/usr/share/applications).  This information was taken from
http://gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/latest/system-admin-guide.html#menust
ructure-0, and http://www.bluethingy.com/linux/rh8menu.html.

If you have any more questions about the X11 menus, I think I've got a
pretty good understanding of it after all this...

Ryan


-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Richie Turner
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:22 PM
To: redhat-list at redhat.com
Subject: Adding entries to the main menu.


i've been searching around for a good while on how to
add items to the main menu, but cant find any definate
way to add items to the main menu, mainly under the
games menu. I'm running RHEL3 WS Update 3. 

i've tried the obvious right click within the menu and
going to 'entire menu' and then selecting 'add new
item to menu' but apparently with the new gnome-panel
2.01 and above. that doesnt work. And by changing the default-modules
around in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules made it so that i could add entries
to the menu, but the entries that programs installed there were gone,
and any program that tried to install more than one icon wouldnt work
(Crossover Office)

have i missed anything?


		
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