FC2 menus
Mike Ramirez
mike at thexxxhost.com
Tue Jul 27 17:16:13 UTC 2004
Hi
In preferences KDE has a menu editor application. Here is the path for
it: /usr/bin/kmenuedit I'm not sure which package it is part of for
KDE.
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:07, Bryan K. Wright wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have an application menu that we've been using for a few
> years now under KDE 2.2.2 on about a hundred RH7.*-based systems.
> It's just a tree under /etc/X11/applnk, like this:
>
> applnk
> |-- Communication
> | |-- InstantMessaging
> | |-- Mail
> | `-- News
> |-- Computation
> |-- DataAnalysis
> |-- Design
> |-- Development
> |-- Editors
> ..... and so on.
>
> Each directory has a .directory file, giving the name. Within the directories
> are *.desktop files. I'd like to take this tree, update it for
> FC2, and use it as part of a new standard configuration for our department.
>
> My original thought was to edit /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
> so that it only contained the following:
>
> <!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN"
> "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd">
> <Menu>
> <Name>Applications</Name>
> <LegacyDir>/etc/X11/applnk</LegacyDir>
> </Menu>
>
> I thought that "LegacyDir" would do the right thing, and create the
> desired menu tree. Unfortunately, what I end up with is a start menu
> with no aplications at all.
>
> Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong here?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bryan
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