[Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo] #419: Add all installed application to the menu at the top of the desktop.

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#419: Add all installed application to the menu at the top of the desktop.
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  Reporter:  shansen  |       Owner:  live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  task     |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  normal   |   Component:  LiveDVD                  
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Comment (by hamish):

 what I have learned:

 The xfce4 menu position is not controlled by the /usr/share/menu/<package>
 & /etc/menu/<custom> files + update-menus system used by many debian WMs.

 Rather they are built from the desktop icon files in
 /usr/share/applications/.

 you have to edit the `Categories=` line in the .desktop files:
 {{{
 Categories=Geospatial;Servers;deegree;
 }}}

 Also I notice a button in the xfwm config GUI (which is unchecked on  the
 2.0 disc) which tells it *not* to flatten everything to the top level of
 the hierarchy. We may have to find the text file config for that and alter
 it.


 In addition, as per jldominguez's bin/install_beta_and_submenu.sh you need
 to add a xfce-osgeo.directory desktop entry file to
 /usr/share/desktop-directories/, and add an entry for that in
 /etc/xdg/xubuntu/menus/xfce-applications.menu


 I have read that you can then put your *.desktop files in ~/.local/share/,
 but I haven't gotten that to work yet.



 Hamish

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