[Novalug] Resolutution (somewhat) Re: fedora 16: add to menu / desktop

Jeremy Hoel jthoel@gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 20:10:50 EST 2011


On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Roger W. Broseus <RogerB@bronord.com> wrote:

> I found /usr/share/applications but that's not enough: how does one ADD a
> menu item? The properties of items in the subject folder don't shed light
> for me. I don't see "main menu."


The menu items are created automagically by the desktop files.  So if
you create a new app.desktop file and fill in the right spots, it will
show up.

These might be helpful:
http://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html.en
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_Tips#Group_menus.2C_System_menus



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