Re: Adding installed packages to menu

[Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:51:20AM +0900, Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> was heard to say:
> > The package is flightgear, the Flight Gear Flight simulator.
>
>  I installed flightgear on my computer overnight to test this myself,
> and it does appear to go into the Gnome menu, under
> "Applications -> Games".  Its .desktop file should look like this:
>
> $ cat /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Type=Application
> Version=1.4
> Name=FlightGear
> Exec=fgfs
> Terminal=false
> Categories=Game;Simulation;
> Comment=A flight simulator
> Comment[pt]=Simulação de Vôo
> Icon=
>
>  Daniel

Hello again.

Just thought t6hat I should advise:

Using vi, I created the above file, at the specified location, then ran 
update-menus.

Flight Gear now has an entry in the Games menu, and the menu entry runs 
the application.

Now, all I have to do, is figure out how to use it, and learn to fly 
(kind of) using it, without crashing or causing other massive stuffups.

Thanks everyone, for your help.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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