Re: sending apps to the right place in the menu

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 6 Dec 2008, at 20:35, rosea grammostola wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com>  
> wrote:
> > See <
> > http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apc.html#adding-items 
> > >.
> > (You'll probably also need to read the rest of that spec too, if  
> > you're not
> > familiar with it.)
>
> I think Categories specify the place of the application (Ardour) in  
> the
> Menu. But How can I specify that Ardour should be placed in my new  
> menu
> entry 'Recording'?

That's what the second bullet point in the link is referring to-- when  
you add a new submenu, you have to add a new menu file to $sysconfdir/ 
desktop/menus/applications-merged that describes which menu items  
should appear in it.

For example, on my system I have a file called /etc/xdg/menus/ 
applications-merged/ggz.menu, which looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 0.8//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/menu-0.8.dtd";>

<Menu>
 <Name>GGZ Gaming Zone</Name>
 <Directory>ggz.directory</Directory>
 <Include>
  <Category>X-GGZ</Category>
 </Include>

 <Menu>
  <Name>GGZ Games</Name>
  <Directory>ggz-games.directory</Directory>
  <Include>
   <Category>X-GGZ-Games</Category>
  </Include>
 </Menu>

</Menu>

This defines a submenu called "GGZ Gaming Zone", on which applications  
of .desktop file Category "X-GGZ-Games" will appear.  The  
"ggz.directory" file referred to in the third line is /usr/share/ 
desktop-directories/ggz-directory, which looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Directory
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=GGZ Gaming Zone
GenericName=
Comment=
Icon=ggz

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