Adding items to the Applications menu

[James McCormick]

Darren Wheatley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to add an entry to the "Applications" menu.
> 
> I have done this so far:
> 
> 1. Open nautilus and entered "applications://" in the address bar
> 
> 2. Created a new folder. Selected a custom icon for it. I called the 
> folder "Development".
> 
> 3. CTRL-R to refresh to check that the folder has been added. It has. 
> The new icon is in place.
> 
> However...
> 
> When I click on the Applications menu my new item, although there, 
> doesn't have my custom icon.
> 
> Also, when I try to add the new menu item to the panel using the...
> 
> i. "Add to panel" option you get when you right-click on the panel
> 
> ii. followed by selecting "Application Launcher" from the "add to top 
> panel" dialog box that pops up
> 
> - I get "Empty" where I expected my "Development" menu item to be. If I 
> open it it does contain all of my development tools (Eclipse and 
> monodevelop).
> 
> 
> Can anyone tell me why the icon is not appearing, and also why the menu 
> item is appearing as "Empty" when I try to add it to the panel?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> D.
> 
> 
> 
It's a quirk in GNOME:  You've got to restart GNOME for the new panel 
operations to work.  Just logging out and logging back in will do the trick.

Kinda painful, I know.  This is one of those things that GNOME should 
make as easy (if not easier) than KDE.