Gnome Help - Menus

[WP Hewitt]

Since I am not positive what you are trying to do - heres a synopsis on 
what I have learned about menu modification....

1 Go to /etc/xdg/menus
There you will find the skeleton for the menu specification.... It is a 
series of files defining menus, application classes that should be 
listed in the menu list and their hierarchy. Look at it a bit and it 
should make some sense....

2. Go to /usr/share/desktop-directories....
There you will find the actual labeling for the menus (What you see on 
the screen). This is where you put internationalization and the icon you 
want associated with the menu/submenu/etc....

3. Go to /usr/share/applications
There you will find the application definitions - these control how the 
application executes, the mimetypes it supports, the icon used, the 
application class, etc, etc.....

As it was said earlier, it isnt pretty (at first), but if you work with 
it a little bit, it isnt bad and is actually logical....
A nice front end to this would be nice, but I think it hasnt been done 
yet for probably the same reason as no one has bothered to answer my 
post about how to redefine gnome-vfs datatypes - no time :(

hope it helps....

WPH