FC2 menus

[Bryan K. Wright]

Hi Mike,

mike at thexxxhost.com said:
> Been looking for a single file that has the menu in it. Couldn't fin
> it. 

Under FC2, the menus are defined according to the freedesktop xdg
standards.  Take a look here:

	http://freedesktop.org/Standards/menu-spec/0.8/

The bottom line is that, by default in FC2, the initial menus are 
defined by a set of files in /etc/xdg/menus/.  These files contain
xml statements (defined in the freedesktop standards) that control
the layout of the menus.  Desktop files are searched for in several
locations, such as /usr/share/applications, /usr/share/desktop-menu-patches,
etc.  The menu system looks at information in the xdg files and the
desktop files (primarily the name information and a list of
categories that describe each desktop item) and builds up a menu
from this.

	The standard also has a provision for supporting "Legacy"
menus.  These are the friendly, old-style menus created by putting
desktop files into a directory tree.  Unfortunately, I'm having trouble
getting this to work when I want to ONLY include a legacy tree.

						Bryan
 
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