GNOME 3 Categories

[John J. McDonough]

This is aimed at Sparks, but I'm posting here because it may be of 
interest to others.

The Amateur Radio applications in Fedora 15 get scattered among 
apparently random categories, making them hard to find and use.

alacarte does exist for Fedora 15, and although you can create 
categories, they do nothing.

*BUT*, all is not lost:


Create a file /usr/share/desktop-directories/AmateurRadio.directory thusly:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Amateur Radio
Name[ca]=ràdio Amateur
Name[cs]=amatérské rádio
Name[el]=ΡαΎιοερασιÏ„εχΜισΌÏŒÃ‚
Name[es]=Radio Amateur
Name[fi]=Radioamatööriliitto
Name[fr]=Radio-amateur
Name[hu]=amatÃ
‘r Rádió
Name[it]=radioamatori
Name[sv]=amatörradio
/usr/share/desktop-directories/AmateurRadio.directory
Icon=applications-electronics
Type=Directory

(Probably some of the oddball characters won't transfer nicely through 
email, chances are you don't log in Finnish all that often anyway.)

Next, add the following section to /etc/xdg/menus/applications-gnome.menu

     <!-- Amateur Radio -->
   <Menu>
     <Name>Amateur Radio</Name>
     <Directory>AmateurRadio.directory</Directory>
     <Include>
       <Or>
         <Category>AmateurRadio</Category>
       </Or>
       <Or>
         <Category>HamRadio</Category>
       </Or>
     </Include>
   </Menu> <!-- End Amateur Radio -->

Most of the amateur radio applications will appear in a new, Amateur
Radio category (might need to reboot - seems a bit schizophrenic).  For 
those that don't, add the HamRadio category to
the .desktop file.

--McD



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