Hi all, I have applications installed in /opt branch. /opt may be exported to other machine under different branch such as /usr2, so I think it's better to keep the .desktop files in the same branch. By default, gnome search desktop files in: ,------------[ desktop file search path ] | ~/.local/share/applications | /usr/share/applications | /usr/local/share/applications `----------------------------------------------- I would like to add /opt/share/applications to the search path. So I add a file to /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/ with the following lines: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- <!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd";> <Menu> <Name>Applications</Name> <AppDir>/opt/share/applications</AppDir> </Menu> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Now the desktop files put in /opt/share/applications will appear in gnome menus. However, when I do 'update-desktop-database -v' there is no /opt/share/applications in the search path and no mimeinfo.cache in this directory either. Any fix? Thank you for your help. -- Leon os: Fedora core 5 (development)
