How to add icons to gnome menu items?
Youssef Makki
bugzilla at sympatico.ca
Thu Mar 4 21:29:50 UTC 2004
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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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