The good news: now most .desktop items appear in the GNOME menu. The bad news: They don't necessarily appear at the correct location. Especially the Preferences and System Settings menus contain a lot of submenus apparently merged in from /usr/share/gnome/apps and /etc/X11/applnk directories. For example I have /usr/share/gnome/apps/Astro/xephem.desktop appear in the Astro submenu in Preferences! (It also appears in the root menu however) Is there a bug the /etc/xdg/menus files...? -- Gérard Milmeister Tannenrauchstrasse 35 8038 Zürich gemi@xxxxxxxxxx