On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 15:37 +0000, Maccy wrote:
Does anyone know how I can add another group under 'Applications' on the top panel of the GNOME desktop?
I can easily add an item to the Applications menu by creating a .desktop file in the /usr/share/applications directory. But I work in Astronomy and what I want to do is create a new 'Astronomy' group containing links to the most popular installed Astro software on one system, then distribute the relevant config files to all my other machines.
Documentation seems scarce....
If you want to do it by file editing, you want to look at the .menu files in /etc/xdg/menus (they are a bit confusing at first).
If you just want to edit your own menus, theres a gui for that somewhere in the preference menus, look for "Main Menu". It lets you add new menus.