sending apps to the right place in the (new) submenu

2009-01-14 Thread schoappied
Hi, I know it is possible to customize the menu in Gnome. But I am wondering if it is also possible to send applications to a specific place in the menu? For example, I want to add an entry in the menu called 'multimedia players'. Is it possible to manage it so that apps like Rhythmbox,

Re: sending apps to the right place in the (new) submenu

2009-01-14 Thread Luca Cappelletti
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 16:23, schoappied schoapp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, ... I know I can place them in the entry after installing the app. But my question is about doing this automatically. try $man xdg-desktop-menu this will help you to reach the solution -- --- Luca Cappelletti

Re: sending apps to the right place in the (new) submenu

2009-01-14 Thread Rodney Dawes
This is handled through categories. Of course Rhythmbox doesn't play multiple types of media yet afaik. It only does music. :) If the categories in the .desktop file for the app, and the .menu file match up, then the app shows up in that menu, unless the implementation is doing something

Re: sending apps to the right place in the (new) submenu

2009-01-14 Thread schoappied
Rodney Dawes wrote: This is handled through categories. Of course Rhythmbox doesn't play multiple types of media yet afaik. It only does music. :) If the categories in the .desktop file for the app, and the .menu file match up, then the app shows up in that menu, unless the implementation is

Re: What constitutes user configuration files in the XDG basedir spec?

2009-01-14 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Rodney Dawes wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 22:09 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: Hi all, at http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html it is explained that $XDG_DATA_{HOME,DIRS} is for (user specific) data files and $XDG_CONFIG_{HOME,DIRS} for (user specific)

Re: sending apps to the right place in the (new) submenu

2009-01-14 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 20:21 +0100, schoappied wrote: Rodney Dawes wrote: This is handled through categories. Of course Rhythmbox doesn't play multiple types of media yet afaik. It only does music. :) If the categories in the .desktop file for the app, and the .menu file match up, then