Where are the Gnome "Applications" and "System" menus?

[Chris G]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:30:09PM +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 19:59 +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me where the Gnome "Applications" and "Systems" menus
> > contents are kept?  I want to write a script that manipulates their
> > contents for use elswehere but first I have to find them!
> 
> Have you tried something like "locate firefox.desktop"?
> 
That was the clue I needed, that the menu entries are stored in
.desktop files.

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Chris Green