Customizing Menus

From: Ryan Golhar (golharam_at_umdnj.edu)
Date: 06/30/04

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    Here's an interesting one...

    I'm built a bunch of RPMs for applications some of which have GUI
    interfaces. Each application has its own .desktop file for the menu.
    They are placed in /usr/share/applications.

    I want to create a menu on the Start Menu containing all my applications
    based on the .desktop files. So, I created a menu in put the file in
    /etc/X11/desktop-menus. The file is called umdnj.menu -- it follows the
    Vfolder spec.

    I placed the appropiate .directory files in
    /usr/share/desktop-menu-files for each entry I have in umdnj.menu

    The menu never appears no matter what I do. If I combine my umdnj.menu
    with applications.menu, all works well. I don't want to do this however
    because I'll be forced to change applications.menu which belongs to
    another RPM.

    My whole custom menu structure is contained within its own RPM which I
    want to maintain for upgrading, modifying, etc.

    Am I missing something here? Do I need something to reference my
    umdnj.menu file somewhere?

    Ryan 

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