On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:09:04 -0800
John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:

>>Did you already read http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu ? I
>>doubt you will have to edit xfce-applications.menu, most things can be
>>done by adding proper categories to the *.desktop files. When you add
>>some, make sure to use the registered values from
>>http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html

>I am especially confused about the application desktop entries. First,
>I find them in my home folder, but not all the application desktop
>entries are there; a lot of applications are listed in the menu for
>which there is no application desktop file. 
>
>And I cannot figure out what decides what folder an application will be
>listed under. Looking at the text of an application desktop file I find
>its location as (e.g.) Settings, but the item actually appears in
>System Tools. I'm trying to figure out the system here, and so far it
>is not making any sense. But there must be a system. I just need to get
>a grip on it.

To clarify further the problem, after several hours editing the menus
with LXMenuEditor, here are the first few items in my applications
menu, hand typed out in Gedit and pasted here. This is as far as I can
get with LXMenuEditor. (Hope the tabs make it in the e-mail.):

Run Program
------------------
Terminal emulator       <harmless, but I don't need this>
File Manager            <ditto>
Mail Reader             <ditto>
We Browser              <ditto>
------------------
Settings
        Settings Manager
        ------------------
        Accessibility
        Appearance
        Bluetooth
        Bluetooth Manager
        Desktop
        Display
        Keyboard
        Mouse
        Panel
        Power Manager
        Preferred Applications
        Qt4 Config
        Session and Startup
        Settings Editor
        Window Manager
        Window Manager Tweaks
        Workspaces
        Xfce4 Printing System Settings
Accessories
        Add/Remove Software
        Back in Time-KDE
        Logical Volume Management       
        Network Device Control
        NVIDIA X Server Settings
        Service Management
        Software Update
-----------------
Accessories             <Note this is the second Accessories menu>
        About Myself
        <40 more entries, many of which  belong in a Settings
                folder, which I do not have>
Documentation
        <two entries>
Education
        <four entries, all my special programs, of which one
                is duplicated and I can't find the duplicate to delete
                it>
Games
        <I want to delete this entire folder. I made every entry I can 
                find "not visible," yet two still appear.>
Graphics
        <a folder that is actually correct>
Internet
        <ok, but has three entries for Chrome and two for Claws-Mail
                and I can't find the duplicates>
Office
        <a folder that is actually correct>
Programming
        <contains six items, and I can't find any of them to make
                them not visible>
Sound and Video
        <a folder that is actually correct>
System
        <contains over 50 apps, a third of which should be in Settings,
                if I had a Settings folder

The wiki refers to moving files here and there, but I don't have any of
the files it refers to. The wiki has no information about what to do if
the files don't exist. 

For example, the wiki says "To create a new sub-menu, add a new “Menu”
element to your ~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu at the same
level as the other xfdesktop sub-menus like “Graphics." Fine, but I
don't have a ~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu file. I don't have
any idea where XFCE is getting the information it is using to display
the application menu above, and the wiki doesn't say.
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