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?
Cheers,
Niki
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
JohnS a écrit :
That should be the right way /usr/share/apps then update it...
1) *What* should be the right way ?
2) then update it... update what ?
Sorry, but this wasn't very helpful.
I want to create a new *main* menu category Applications > Medintux. Just how should I go about that? Please be less elliptic.
Niki
PS: /usr/share/apps != /usr/share/applications... did you mean that? But then, what to do with it?
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 19:47 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
JohnS a écrit :
That should be the right way /usr/share/apps then update it...
*What* should be the right way ?
then update it... update what ?
Sorry, but this wasn't very helpful.
I want to create a new *main* menu category Applications > Medintux. Just how should I go about that? Please be less elliptic.
------ 1. Ok what I said was you are on the right way to doing it
2. Heres the easy way..... Right Click on the Applications Menu Click on Edit Menus. I think you can figure the rest out it's pretty easy.
OK manually you can put the *.desktop entry into /YourHomeDir/.gnome or /home/.kde
Thankfully I had to learn the hard way. You get the easy way. Took me a whole afternoon to figure it out.
John
JohnS a écrit :
Ok what I said was you are on the right way to doing it
Heres the easy way.....
Right Click on the Applications Menu Click on Edit Menus. I think you can figure the rest out it's pretty easy.
OK manually you can put the *.desktop entry into /YourHomeDir/.gnome or /home/.kde
Thankfully I had to learn the hard way. You get the easy way. Took me a whole afternoon to figure it out.
That's on a per-user basis. I need the new menu entry for *all* users. Any idea how I could achieve that ?
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 22:15 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
That's on a per-user basis. I need the new menu entry for *all* users. Any idea how I could achieve that ?
Do the users already exist? If not, put your custom setup into /etc/skel.
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:30 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 22:15 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
That's on a per-user basis. I need the new menu entry for *all* users. Any idea how I could achieve that ?
Do the users already exist? If not, put your custom setup into /etc/skel.
---- No no No...
Here I found my link I used to do it amnually: It is for system wide... http://wiki.matusov.sk/howto/gnome-menu-edit
This is what I went by to do it so I could include the files in my rpm build, which took a whole afternoon about. I would have given it to you earlier but it took some backups to go through to find it.
John
JohnS a écrit :
No no No...
Here I found my link I used to do it amnually: It is for system wide... http://wiki.matusov.sk/howto/gnome-menu-edit
This is what I went by to do it so I could include the files in my rpm build, which took a whole afternoon about.
Thanks very much for the link! That did the trick. Now I have a shiny new entry 'Medintux' in my 'Applications' menu.
Have a nice day,
Niki
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 10:18 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
JohnS a écrit :
No no No...
Here I found my link I used to do it amnually: It is for system wide... http://wiki.matusov.sk/howto/gnome-menu-edit
This is what I went by to do it so I could include the files in my rpm build, which took a whole afternoon about.
Thanks very much for the link! That did the trick. Now I have a shiny new entry 'Medintux' in my 'Applications' menu.
Ok now how you like it?
John
JohnS a écrit :
Thanks very much for the link! That did the trick. Now I have a shiny new entry 'Medintux' in my 'Applications' menu.
Ok now how you like it?
Great. But check for yourself :
http://www.microlinux.fr/images/menugnome.png
Cheers,
Niki
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