.desktop -> menu

[Taco Witte]

Op za, 18-06-2005 te 00:12 +0200, schreef Vincent Trouilliez:
> > Does anyone know how a an application is sorted in the menu?
> > In a .desktop file I can say "category=Application", but that seems 
> > unrelated to where the item ends up in the Gnome menu. How is that determined?
> 
> 
> I too would love to control how the menu are organized. Sadly it seems
> you can't have any control over it. As far as I could see, menu entries
> are simply arranged/sorted in alphabetical order and that's it ! :-/
> 
> I hope that some future version of Gnome will give the user total
> control over how the menu items (including sub-menus) are arranged :o(

You can edit the "Categories" in a .desktop file; it contains a number
of keywords that are used to determine where an application will go. I
for example just copied the .desktop file for gconf-editor, renamed it
to FooBar and changed System to Network in the Categories. I don't know
how the keywords are handled exactly, but it's certainly not "random".

Kind regards,
Taco