Saving a custom menu structure

[millerthegorilla]

Hi, I am wanting to do a clean install to ubuntu studio 11.10 without Unity. I am using studio 10.04 at the moment, and have spent some time creating a menu structure that I am happy with so that all of my audio programs are easily accessible.

Is there a way of saving the existing menu structure so that I don't have to rebuild it.
Where is it's location? I am a developer, so parsing xml, json or whatever structure it is to replace the program command locations won't be a problem. I may even develop a gui to do it automatically, if I can.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[lechien73]

Hi and welcome to the forums

The applications menu (and other menus) are stored between the following two locations:

/etc/xdg/menus
~/.config/menus

The menus at /etc/xdg/menus are global, whereas the other location reflects changes applicable to the local user. They're stored in xml format, and should be fairly self-explanatory when you look at them.