Re: how to add an item to a menu

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:41:23AM +0100, Henrik Ormåsen wrote:
> for all users?
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/2.0/singlefile.html#menustructure-4
> it stands:
> 
> "To add an item to a menu for all users, perform the following steps:
> 

Those steps did not work reliably enough to include in Red Hat; what
you have to do is edit the file
/etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu (or preferences.menu).

To add/remove specific desktop files, use <Include> and <Exclude>
lines, there are some examples in there.

Havoc