Thanks for taking the time to edify we newbies.

I wanted to create my own menu, alongside "Applications" but totally of my own design and logic (which I should be able to do).

I don't know yet how to do that, and certainly this method proposed here won't allow that, but, I'm still looking.

As a start, toward that goal, I wrote up a trivially simple short cut-and-paste you-can't-miss DIY with all the files (which is the best way to do a tutorial) over here in this thread.

- How to add your own menu item in Ubuntu 10.04 (all example files provided)