gnome config file search path

[Thomas List <Thomas List rwth-aachen de>]

Hi,

while developing a small gnome2 application I ran into a little problem. 
If I install my program to /usr/local (using ./configure without 
--prefix), the desktop-file ends in /usr/local/share/applications and is 
not seen by (the Redhat 9 default) gnome. Now this is not that much of a 
problem - the application works.
But now I was thinking about adding sound to my application using 
gnome_triggers_do() and a soundlist file. The soundlist file has to be 
installed in /etc/sound/events to be used by gnome, so installing the 
program to /usr/local (and the soundfile to /usr/local/etc/sound/events) 
will not work.
Is this a problem of gnome in general or just of the gnome shipped by 
redhat? Is there a way to configure gnome where to look for desktop and 
soundlist files?

  Thomas