how do i add icons to application menu

[Mustafa Abbasi]

also where would you ppl recommend installing new programs.
when i installed firefox i used serach to find the old installation 
and installed it there but that just because firefox has such a nice gui 
installer.
what directory shoulfd i start the install of say azureus.


On 7/4/05, Frederic Soulier <frederic at wallaby.uklinux.net> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 17:44 +0500, Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
> > i mean i install lots of programs but i can't seems to get their
> > shortcut to appear on the applications menu.
> > but when synaptic install something its shortcut appears instantly.
> > any idea what directory i should install to.
> > i usually just install to home
> 
> You can use the menu editor "smeg" as mention by a previous poster or
> you can add a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/
> Look at what's in there for examples.
> 
> Having said that I'm not sure if user defined entries should be in this
> directory or somewhere else.
> 
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