Saturday, July 12, 2008

Start Menu updation

How that is possible? Here is the solution, check it.
Here is the procedure for getting our own menu in the Linux start menu -
Add an entry in the /etc/xdg/menus to create an entry in the menu name Data Patterns. Add this code in the application.menu and application.menu.kde.
Here is the text
Create a directory file in the /usr/share/desktop-directory folder. The directory file name should be with .directory extension.
For our own entry I made this file name as – “kde-ATS.directory”, Contents of this directory file is –
The last steps is to link the execute file with the menu items. The following steps must be followed to link –
Copy the executable file in the /bin folder. Here I copied the atsstack executable in the /bin folder.
Create a “.desktop” file in /usr/share/applications to link with the executable, copied into /bin folder. Here this is the content for atsstack.desktop –
Now we got the solution.
Now if we click in the atsstack sub-menu, we will get the application running.