FAQ, GNOME menus, first questions

[Michael Knepher]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 19:59 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> the .desktop's for the menu has as far as i know always lived in
> /usr/share/applications

There are some legacy locations hidden around the filesystem. If the
StarOffice installer is putting them in usr/share/applications, and the
"Categories=" line has the right info, then the menu items should just
show up. In this case a line like

Categories=Application;Office;

in each *.desktop file should be sufficient to get it in the menu.


> tir, 05.10.2004 kl. 19.57 skrev Michael Knepher:
> > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 23:43 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> > >         2. How to edit the GNOME menus? I installed Sun StarOffice 7,
> > > which
> > > comes with neat little "*.desktop" files already. But where to put
> > > them
> > > so all menus for all users show them? (I'd like to put them in the
> > > "Office" category.)
> > > 
> > 
> > After Test 3 comes out, I'm going to try to update my RH9 tutorial on
> > editing the gnome menus to cover the changes in FC3. Unfortunately,
> > there's still no friendly way to edit the menus, and there probably
> > won't be a GNOME-wide tool until 2.10, if not later.
> > 
> > With regard to StarOffice, where does the installer put the *.desktop
> > files? Do they have a "Categories=" line, and if so what does it say?
>