Adding items to the Applications menu

[Eric L. Howard]

At a certain time, now past [Oct.10.2004-07:26:30PM -0500], rantman_2000 at yahoo.com spake thusly:
> 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".
> >
[....snip...]
> >
> >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.

I may have missed something here...but shouldn't famd pick up such changes?
I know it did a couple weeks back when I was running Gentoo...

New menu items appeared almost instantly - no logout/login necessary.

       ~elh

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