Re: Installing menu entries

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Johan Ersvik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When installing a menu entry system wide it's enough to simply put
> a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications but for a user local install
> I try to put the desktop file in ~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications but
> nothing shows up in the menu. Am I missing something? How do I do this
> the right way?

It's unfortunate that I have to say this, but: there is none. You're not 
doing anything wrong, it's just not possible. The 
~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications way worked on *some* GNOME <= 2.4 
desktops, and not on others. We're all supposed to move to the 
freedesktop.org menu spec, but GNOME upstream still uses the old 
vfolders implementation. RedHat GNOME has partial support for the FDO 
spec, but it's not merged upstream. For GNOME 2.6+, you have to resort 
to a hack which involves editing 
~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications-all-users.vfolder-info or something like 
that.

It's all a huge mess currently. :(