Customizing menus in 2.10Beta

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Kevin Oberman wrote:

>> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:34:29 +0100 (CET)
>> From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root at pukruppa.net>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
>>
>> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>>
>>> Now I would also like to create a new menu directory (called "Math") for
>>> xmaxima. Could you give me a hint, how to do this?
>> Found that one out myself:
>> There exists a file called /usr/X11R6/etc/menus/applications.menu
>> Where one can place an entry like this:
>>
>>  	--------------------------------------------
>>    <!-- Math -->
>>    <Menu>
>>      <Name>Math</Name>
>>      <Directory>Math.directory</Directory>
>>      <Include>
>>        <And>
>>          <Not>
>>            <Or>
>>              <Category>Qt</Category>
>>              <Category>KDE</Category>
>>            </Or>
>>          </Not>
>>          <Category>Math</Category>
>>        </And>
>>      </Include>
>>    </Menu>
>>
>>  	---------------------------------------
>> Specs for all this can be found on
>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/
>
> Uli,
>
> I have been reading the docs and I will admit that I am probably
> confused.
>
> First, my applications.menu file is /usr/X11R6/etc/xdg/menus/. Are you
> sure of the location on your system?
That might well be. There seem to be different possible 
locations for compatibility with all kinds of linux sytems. Take 
the one that works with you.

>
> The desktop files are the easy part. It's the menu stuff that has me lost.
>
> I would really like to add a new menu (on the panel) for "Remote
> Access", but I have at least been able to get it into the "Applications"
> menu. Something creates the "places " and "Desktop" menus, but I have
> been unable to find it. Are they hard-coded?
> Any references beyond the freedesktop menu spec?
I have no idea, that was the only one I found.  Try to search 
your file-system with #locate .


Regards,

Uli.
> -- 
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
>



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