Kees, I worked with one of my seniors last year on this. It took us a long time to dig through the gnome documentation to figure this out. Below is what we came up with, tested on jaunty and we have successfully implemented this in lucid. I have not checked out the edubuntu-menu-editor yet but if it works it will save us from this tedious manual process.
Custom Gnome Menus Overview: Basically you are going to create your own menu directory structure that mirrors the system's with a custom menus file in /opt/tcs/menu/tcs.menu (tcs is short for our school's name trillium charter school) /opt/tcs/ is where we put all of our customizations. Also in /opt/tcs you have folders for .desktop and .directory files. You will then reference this custom menu set by adding a line to the system menu file here: /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu. Your new menu items will effectively merge with the system menu items while allowing you to easily move your menu to a new system or fat client chroot. Here is what to do: * * */opt/tcs/menus you have 2 directories and 1 file* *applications and desktop-directories and the tcs.menu file (see contents below) place all .desktop files in the applications directory and all .directory files in desktop-directories I suppose you could give permissions to these files to your 'student' group so they would only show up for students although we have not done this. * *Examples of .desktop files are found in /usr/share/applications Examples of .directory files are found in /usr/share/desktop-directories* *You can copy an existing menu structure from the system, customize it for your needs.* * * Next: create* **/opt/tcs/menus/*tcs.menu as below with /opt/tcs/menus/ replaced with your custom menu location: <!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 0.8//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/menu-0.8.dtd";> <Menu> <!-- Set Location For TCS menus --> <DirectoryDir>/opt/tcs/menus/desktop-directories</DirectoryDir> <AppDir>/opt/tcs/menus/applications</AppDir> <!-- Main Menu Level --> <Name>Trillium</Name> <Include> <Category>tcs-main</Category> </Include> <!-- Development Tools --> <Menu> <Name>Development</Name> <Menu> <Name>alan</Name> <Directory>tcs-alan.directory</Directory> <Include> <Category>tcs-alan</Category> </Include> </Menu> <Menu> <Name>html</Name> <Directory>tcs-html.directory</Directory> <Include> <Category>tcs-html</Category> </Include> </Menu> <Menu> <Name>Scratch</Name> <Directory>tcs-scratch.directory</Directory> <Include> <Category>scratch</Category> </Include> </Menu> </Menu> <!-- End Development Tools --> </Menu> <!-- End Main Menu Level --> Lastly*,* reference tcs.menu (the file above) in the system applications menu: Make the addition below in: /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu Add this line: <MergeFile type="path">/opt/tcs/menus/tcs.menu</MergeFile> After the <Directory> Entry as shown below.. ... <Menu> <Name>Applications</Name> <Directory>X-GNOME-Menu-Applications.directory</Directory> <MergeFile type="path">/opt/tcs/menus/tcs.menu</MergeFile> Works! -Nick (and my recent graduate Keaton) Nick Fenger -Information Technology Trillium Charter School http://www.trilliumcharterschool.org
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