Re: Installing menu entries



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. :(



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