Adding item to the menu (GNOME)

[Andrew Robinson]

Bart Martens wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 07:25, Pinco wrote:
> 
>>I would like to add an item to the menu, but using the "property" as 
>>'root' form the rightclicking I get an error message saying that it 
>>isn't possible to writr on the disk!
> 
> 
> See this bug report in bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106149
> 
> 

I asked this question a week or so ago. Youssef Makki was kind enough to 
provide me with this short exchange on the subject of adding items to 
the menus by hand. I have not tried these modifications yet, but here is 
the info I have:

HTH,

Andrew Robinson


That's determined in the .desktop file itself, take the xchat one for
example:

Categories=Application;Network;

This would make it show up under Internet -> More Internet Applications.
Add "X-Red-Hat-Base;" to the categories, and it'll show up in the main
Internet menu.


On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 15:19, Andrew Robinson wrote:

 >> OK, I found the jpilot.desktop file and was able to add an icon to it.
 >> Thanks!
 >>
 >> Next question: What file or file type determines what apps appear in
 >> what menu? In other words, how does my system know that the "More 
Office
 >> Applications" menu contains gnumeric, jpilot, kchart, etc?
 >>
 >> Andrew
 >>
 >> Youssef Makki wrote:
 >
 >>> > /usr/share/applications, edit the .desktop files there.
 >>> >
 >>> > On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 04:02, Andrew Robinson wrote:
 >>> >
 >>
 >>>> >>Bart Martens wrote:
 >>>> >>
 >>>
 >>>>> >>>On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 07:11, Andrew Robinson wrote:
 >>>>> >>>
 >>>>> >>>
 >>>>
 >>>>>> >>>>I have some items in my gnome menu that do not have icons 
associated
 >>>>>> >>>>with them. To associate an icon, I tried right-clicking on 
the item,
 >>>>>> >>>>selecting "Properties", clicking on the icon button, then 
selecting the
 >>>>>> >>>>icon from the list. When I close the "Properties" dialog, I 
get this
 >>>>>> >>>>error message:
 >>>>>> >>>>
 >>>>>> >>>>  Cannot save changes to launcher
 >>>>>> >>>>
 >>>>>> >>>>  Details: Error writing file
 >>>>>> >>>>  'applications:/Office/MoreOffice/jpilot.desktop':
 >>>>>> >>>>  Read-only file system
 >>>>
 >>>>> >>>
 >>>>> >>>
 >>>>> >>>Could be related to:
 >>>>> >>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106149
 >>>>> >>>
 >>>
 >>>> >>
 >>>> >>Where are the XML files refered to in that discussion? I'd be 
happy to
 >>>> >>do this configuration by hand if I just knew how.
 >>>> >>
 >>>> >>Thanks!
 >>>> >>
 >>>> >>Andrew
 >>
 >>> >
 >>> >
 >>> >
 >>> >