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David M. Carney wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 11:59 -0500, Tab Gilbert wrote:
>  
>
>>Just starting but can not figure out (find) how to make make an
>>application run (show up) on the menu.
>>
>>
>>from a gnome-terminal type:
>>
>>sudo apt-get install bittorrent
>>
>>So it says I have it installed but I can not find where it is located.
>> Got a folder to appear under the applications menu but get confused
>>after that.  I go to Create Laucher and then can not find bittorrent
>>and do not know the proper command.
>>
>>Did the:
>>applications:////
>>which did not work.  
>>
>>Everything I have seen in the various help/documentation sections just
>>seems to assume I know something which is not the case.  I am missing
>>this small vital link.
>>
>>Goal:
>>Install and run bittorrent to get the livecd
>>figure out how to do a checksum cause I have done 3 direct downloads
>>of hoary and everyone of them shows a bad checksum during install.
>>
>>
>>Sorry for jumping around (still learning how to format an inquiry) 
>>and asking a very basic question but I getting frustrated with
>>something that should be rather simple.
>>
>>Next:
>>can see hp psc 2210 printer but spits out  page with !PS_Adobe-3.0
>>etc. at top and then keeps throwing out blank pages uptil empty.
>>
>>Thank you to everyone involved in this operation,  
>>---
>>Warty
>>Gateway E-2000
>>
>>    
>>
>Unfortunately, there is no easy "gui" way to add files to the desktop
>menus.
>
>Gnome has switched to Open Desktop standards. Entries in the panel menus
>is completely different. It is not impossible to do, just something new
>to learn until a gui app is written to make it easier.
>
>Most of the entries are kept in /usr/share/applications. These are in
>the form of <application name>.desktop files. Note that <application
>name> doesn't actually have th be the name of the app. Fun, already,
>huh?
>
>Open a terminal in the above folder and list the files with "ls -la" (no
>quotes).
>
>You will see something like:
>
>-rw-r--r--    1 root root   210 2004-12-13 23:01 wxcas.desktop
>-rw-r--r--    1 root root   410 2005-02-10 05:08 xchat.desktop
>-rw-r--r--    1 root root  3426 2004-12-22 12:39 XMMS.desktop
>-rw-r--r--    1 root root   146 2005-01-19 05:08 xpdf.desktop
>-rw-r--r--    1 root root  1118 2004-10-29 08:07 xsane.desktop
>-rw-r--r--    1 root root  5008 2005-02-23 19:08 yelp.desktop
>david at n1zhe:/usr/share/applications$
>
>NOTE: I only listed the last few entries from mine for brevity.
>
>Lets open the freeguide.desktop file just to see how it all works. This
>is one I created and it has just the minimum to get it all to work. Use
>a good text editor.
>
>...and you will see:
>
>[Desktop Entry]
>Name=FreeGuide
>Comment=Download a TV guide from the Internet and view it
>GenericName=TV Guide
>Encoding=UTF-8
>Type=Application
>Categories=GNOME;Application;AudioVideo;
>Exec=freeguide
>Icon=freeguide.png
>
>This file assumes a few things. It assumes the executable is in you path
>and the icon is in /usr/share/pixmaps. If not, put the full path in.
>
>You can open some others and take a quick peek and see many more things.
>When you do, remember that I'm using U.S. English only so I did not need
>all the names and comments, etc, in the other languages.
>
>Since I started "rolling" my own, I discovered that you can modify just
>your own (not system wide) menus by creating the *.desktop files in
>~/.local/share/applications. This has the benefit that you don't have to
>use root access to create or modify the files.
>
>There are many options you can use to create these files. Look at
>http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.4.html for more info on the *.desktop files.
>
>Best of luck!
>
>David
>
>  
>
This is -really- stupid. I'm fast going off Ubuntu, it's just too 'rough 
around the edges'.  The fun I had getting xorg, sort of, working, and 
now this just to add a app to a menu! Gawd! Where did I put that Suse 
Pro dvd???

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