Adding item to the menu (GNOME)

[thedogfarted]

Jeff Vian wrote:
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> thedogfarted wrote:
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>> try this:
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>> cd /usr/share/applications
>> ls
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> If you are looking for a file named .desktop,   you CANNOT see it with "ls"
> You will have to use "ls .*" to see files whose names begin with a "."
> The shell does not match file names beginning with a . when it expands 
> the *, and ls follows the same rules.
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you didn't understand me. When we speak about menu editing we speak not 
about file named .desktop but files with extension '.desktop'

[thedogfarted at yarrow thedogfarted]$ cd /usr/share/applications
[thedogfarted at yarrow applications]$ ls
fedora-gnome-alsamixer.desktop  mail-notification.desktop
fedora-hdspconf.desktop         mozilla-compose.desktop
....

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>> and what do you see now??
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>> if i open /usr/share/applications i can't see any .desktop files too, 
>> that's because nautilus displays the names specified in those files.
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>> pinco wrote:
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>>> Andrew Robinson wrote:
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>>>> 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
>>>>
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>>>> That's determined in the .desktop file itself, take the xchat one for
>>>> example:
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Andrew,
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>>> I wasn't able to find any .desktop file!
>>> It isn't in my /usr/share/applications.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nino
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