Art Wildman wrote:
> 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
>>>

I found this link useful too (especially the example about 2/3 of the
way down):-

http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html

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Mark Whidby
Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix) - Physics/Chemistry/SEAES Team
Information Systems
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences