I finally found the solution on my own and thought I would share this information with the list. I apologize for the length. You can not modify /var/lib/menu/kde/... (or /usr/share/applnk-redhat/...) manually. The directory tree is rebuilt automatically by some mystery process. If you want to add something to that tree, you have to put your new .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ and they MUST have a "Categories=" line in them. The precise details as to the meaning of these categories are unknown to me at this time, but here is what I figured out: each "category" in that field ends with a semicolon (;) including the last one; the semicolon is not just a delimiter. These are the categories I found and what they mean: Application; Seems to be present for everything X-Red-Hat-Base; If present, the item is placed in the base menu X-Red-Hat-Extra; If present, the item is placed in the "More __" submenu Utility; The accessories menu Game; The game menu Graphics; The graphics menu Network; The internet menu AudioVideo; The multimedia (Sound & Video) menu Office; The office menu Settings; The "Preferences" menu Development; The "Programming" menu System; The "System Tools" menu SystemSetup; The "System Settings" menu GNOME; This must do something in gnome, I couldn't say what These categories seem to have no effect on where items are placed (in KDE at least). Maybe they do something with the Gnome menu, in which case the GNOME category might need to be present for them to show up in the right places. Maybe someone else can fill in the blanks here for me... ArcadeGame; BoardGame; CardGame; PuzzleGame; StrategyGame; RasterGraphics; VectorGraphics; Viewer; Spreadsheet; AdvancedSettings; TextEditor; GTK; There were also 2 exceptions that I need to list: redhat-config-rootpassword.desktop: Categories=Application;System;X-Red-Hat-Base; redhat-switchdesk.desktop Categories=Application;Settings;X-Red-Hat-Extra; These 2 both showed up in the "System Settings". It looks like "Settings" might be something like an alias for "SystemSetup" but the redhat-config-rootpassword entry coming up in "System Settings" is a real mystery unless everything I just wrote is wrong. ____________________________________________________________________________ Bob Shaffer II - Owner, Developer, System Operator - BobShaffersComputer.com http://bobshafferscomputer.com/ telnet://bobshafferscomputer.com
