On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 18:50 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
The title says it all. My GNOME desktop is in French, so here's what my standard Applications (same word in french) menu looks like :
Applications > Accessoires (Utilities) > Bureautique (Office) > Graphisme (Graphics) > Internet (Internet) > Son et vidéo (Sound and Video)
Now I'm currently installing a medical application (Medintux) which consists of several different "modules", e. g. programs where each one does one thing. There are something like ten different modules, and I'd like to create a new category in my main menu, so I have :
Applications > Medintux > User Management > Diagnostics > X-Rays > Scanner management > Prescriptions > ...
Something like that.
I'm already familiar with creating *.desktop files and putting them in /usr/share/applications and running update-desktop-database. But I can't seem to be able to create a new category. I found some probably related files in /usr/share/desktop-directories and tried to edit my custom medintux.directory file, but to no avail.
Anyone here familiar with the innards of GNOME desktop menus?
--- That should be the right way /usr/share/apps then update it...
I think your problem is you need to Crtl-Alt-Backspace as in restart X.
By the wa how you like the app?
John