Re: sending apps to the right place in the menu

On 11 Dec 2008, at 20:12, rosea grammostola wrote:

>> Thanks again. I get it now... almost
>
> A questions remains...
> Let's take Ardour for example. If I install Ardour in for example  
> Debian, it
> will be placed in a certain position in the menu.
>
> Let's say I want to build a distro with a new submenu. I make a repo  
> for it
> and I want that Ardour will be placed in the new submenu when people  
> who are
> using my distro, install it.
>
> What should I edit when I make a debian package of Ardour (or any  
> other
> app)? How do I make sure Ardour is placed in my 'third party'  
> submenu when
> it is installed by people?

Getting out of the realms of what I can say for sure myself, now... if  
nobody else here can help, you might have better luck over on xdg <at> freedesktop.org 
, where the menu file specifications are devised and discussed.

<http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg>

Cheeri,
Calum.

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