How to modify "System places" menu

[Donatas G.]

> I was watching this thread with interest.
> I just added some links to that folder, but they still do not appear in 
> the menu from the taskbar.
> Do I need to edit some text file? (I opened the directory in konq as 
> sudo and then
> simply created the links via rt-click, gui method.)
> 
> tony

You have to add desktop files, like the files that are in that folder
already.

And then you have to restart kicker:
so hit Alt+F2
and then run
killall kicker ; kicker