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Hello

I have been working on some changes to my GNOME Menu files. Mainly I
want to change some of the “categories” to the core so there won’t be
any “sub-categories” involved.

For example I remarked out the first line in the following
writer.desktop file and it now appears directory in the category
“Office” in my GNOME Menu.

#Categories=Office;WordProcessor;
Categories=X-SuSE-Core-Office;Office;

My problem however is trying to find the correct “core” names. For
example, the following appears in my gnome-sound-recorder.desktop file

Categories=GNOME;GTK;Application;AudioVideo;Recorder;

If I change it to

Categories=GNOME;GTK;Application;AudioVideo;

It does not work so “AduioVideo” appears to be incorrect.

In searching my system for .directory files, file with the title “Audio
& Video” using the same little icon is actually name
nld-audiovideo.directory. However that does not seem to work either.

Any thoughts?

Thank you.

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Hi
You need to have a read… :slight_smile:
http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/menustructure-desktopentry.html.en
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/menu-spec?action=show&redirect=Standards%2Fmenu-spec

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Thanks you.

I had read the first when I started out but not the second one, so I
appreciate the info. However at this point I guess I am just too
confused. I found the following code in my applications.menu file and
from the look of it, if I used

“Categories=X-Suse-Core-Mutlimedia;” in a .desktop file it should
appear directly under the Audio & Video category, without being in any
sub category. Yet it does not work? nor does

“Categories=X-Suse-Core-AudioVideo;”

<Menu>
<Name>AudioVideo</Name>

<Directory>nld-audiovideo.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>X-NLD-Core-AudioVideo</Category>
</Include>
<Include>
<Category>X-SuSE-Core-Multimedia</Category>
</Include>
<Menu>
<Name>Mixer</Name>
<Directory>suse-multimedia-audiomixer.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Mixer</Category>
</Include>
</Menu>
<Menu>

Thank you

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Hi
As far as I’m aware the X is required to override and it should work?
Are you using the tools to validate?

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