Re: menu behavior

[Gregory McLean <gregm comstar net>]

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- -> On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 02:11:02PM -0700 or thereabouts, Joseph de los Santos wrote:
- -> > Hi,
- -> > I would like to know why gnome *sometimes* does not install applications in 
- -> > the gnome menu automatically and *sometimes* it does unlike enlightenment. 
- -> > i.e. when I installed xchat,everybuddy,emacs,balsa etc gnome added them in 
- -> > my system menu automatically but when I installed other software like 
- -> > realplayer,staroffice,gkrellm,exmh... it did not add them  unlike in my 
- -> > enlightenment system menu *everything's* there... (almost all anyway) and if 
- -> > it's possible, how can I make gnome behave that way?
- -> 
- -> By GNOME menu, do you mean the list of programs you get in the gnome
- -> foot menu? If so, I think the explanation is this.
[snip] 
- -> I -think- that if the application doesn't come with one of these
- -> application.desktop files, then it won't get picked up by the gnome
- -> menu as existing.

The other time it won't pick up/display an application is when the 
executable for said application can't be found on the current path.

[snip]


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