I've been down this road lately, trying to customize a common set of
menus & desktop launchers for some users where Gnome was required. Why
the RH Docs don't show up during searches is very annoying <sigh>.  See
if this helps...
RedHat Desktop Deployment Guide - Gnome Menu Editing and Configuration
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/desktop-guide/ch-ddg-menus.html

This tool may also prove useful...
MenuMaker Home - menu generation utility
http://menumaker.sourceforge.net/

-Cheers, Art@JAX

Maccy wrote:
> version 4.7

Troy Dawson wrote:
> You need to let us know which version of Scientific Linux you are
> running, because it has changed some between the versions.
> I'm not saying I remember how to do it, I just remember that it was
> different.
>
> Troy
>
> 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 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....
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any advice,
>>
>> Mark
>>