Hi In preferences KDE has a menu editor application. Here is the path for it: /usr/bin/kmenuedit I'm not sure which package it is part of for KDE. On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:07, Bryan K. Wright wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have an application menu that we've been using for a few > years now under KDE 2.2.2 on about a hundred RH7.*-based systems. > It's just a tree under /etc/X11/applnk, like this: > > applnk > |-- Communication > | |-- InstantMessaging > | |-- Mail > | `-- News > |-- Computation > |-- DataAnalysis > |-- Design > |-- Development > |-- Editors > ..... and so on. > > Each directory has a .directory file, giving the name. Within the directories > are *.desktop files. I'd like to take this tree, update it for > FC2, and use it as part of a new standard configuration for our department. > > My original thought was to edit /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu > so that it only contained the following: > > <!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN" > "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd";> > <Menu> > <Name>Applications</Name> > <LegacyDir>/etc/X11/applnk</LegacyDir> > </Menu> > > I thought that "LegacyDir" would do the right thing, and create the > desired menu tree. Unfortunately, what I end up with is a start menu > with no aplications at all. > > Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong here? > > Thanks in advance, > Bryan > -- > =============================================================================== > Bryan Wright |"If you take cranberries and stew them like > Physics Department | applesauce, they taste much more like prunes > University of Virginia | than rhubarb does." -- Groucho > Charlottesville, VA 22901 | > (434) 924-7218 | bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx > =============================================================================== > >
