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