add application names to the drop-down menu??

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 11:43:59PM +0400, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 05:16:09PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > 	Guys,
> > 
> > 	Can anybodytell me how to add apps to the Gnome "drop-down"
> > 	menu beneath the string "Applications"? (Upper-left-hand corner)
> > 
> > 	gary
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> >   Gary Kline  kline at thought.org   www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
> >       http://jottings.thought.org   http://transfinite.thought.org
> 
> Try using deskutils/alacarte, from pkg-descr:
> 
> Alacarte is a simple freedesktop.org compliant menu editor
> for GNOME that lets you change your menus, simply and
> quickly. Just click and type to edit, add, and delete any
> menu entry.

	Super!  thanks for the pointer to the utility.  I am assuming
	there is no way short of hacking <xlm>, right? or not?

	I'll check it out pronto.

	gary


> 
> 
> HTH,
> Yuri

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