Re: new menu entry ...

[Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>]

Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:56:22PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 12:52, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > You can also find desktop files in /usr/share/gnome/apps or you can
> > search these files with 'dpkg -S .dektop'
> 
> That's the deprecated location which only works with GNOME 1 and GNOME 2
> reads for backward-compat.
> 
> .desktop files go in /usr/share/applications -- this way KDE3 picks them
> up too.

> I have done this :

> $ cat /usr/share/applications/unicorn.desktop 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Unicorn status
> Comment=Bewan ADSL modem status monitor
> Exec=/usr/bin/bewan_adsl_status
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> MimeType=application/x-executable
> Categories=System;Network;Monitor

$ cat  /usr/share/applications/unicorn.desktop         
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Unicorn status
Comment=Bewan ADSL modem status monitor
Exec=bewan_adsl_status
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;System;

Christian