How to add icons to gnome menu items?

[Andrew Robinson]

Ah hah! Now I have the power! Thanks Youssef.

Andrew

Youssef Makki wrote:

>That's determined in the .desktop file itself, take the xchat one for
>example:
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>Categories=Application;Network;
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>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.
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>On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 15:19, Andrew Robinson wrote:
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>>OK, I found the jpilot.desktop file and was able to add an icon to it. 
>>Thanks!
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>>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?
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>>Andrew
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>>Youssef Makki wrote:
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>>>/usr/share/applications, edit the .desktop files there.
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>>>On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 04:02, Andrew Robinson wrote:
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>>>>Bart Martens wrote:
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>>>>>On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 07:11, Andrew Robinson wrote:
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>>>>>>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:
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>>>>>> Cannot save changes to launcher
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>>>>>> Details: Error writing file
>>>>>> 'applications:/Office/MoreOffice/jpilot.desktop':
>>>>>> Read-only file system
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>>>>>Could be related to:
>>>>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106149
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>>>>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.
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>>>>Thanks!
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>>>>Andrew
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