alacarte menu editor compatibility

[jeidern]

I've just recently downloaded Lubuntu 10.04 and tried it. It was nice because it was light on my machine. My only problem is, is that it doesn't have a graphical menu editor, and I don't know how to edit menus other than using GUIs.

I've read something about alacarte-menu-editor being able to be used in Lubuntu. I would just like to confirm if it DOES work with Lubuntu.

Thanks in advance.

[jeidern]

Bumping this thread. Sure would appreciate some reps. Thanks again

[gadolinio]

i'm not sure, as I've only tried Lubuntu a little in a virtual machine, but I think that could be done with the default tools that come with the system. Try right-clicking everything, looking for "properties", etc. It may be not a tool like "Menu editor, hey! click me", but some menu/obect's properties. Good luck!

[jeidern]

I tried the right clicking thing. When I right click the menu button, there is an option about the settings of the menu but when you click it, it's only the setting of the image shown in the menu button, nothing else.

Hmmm... anyways, I'm currently installing... when I'm finished installing I'll try the alacarte menu editor and I'll post the results afterwards.

[jeidern]

Well, I've successfully installed lubuntu, upgraded and installed alacarte via synaptic package manager. The said program installed quite well, It was added to the list of programs in the lubuntu main menu. But the problem is, even though alacarte worked as a program, the changes you make in it doesn't apply to the lubuntu menu. So in other words, my question as to the compatibility of alacarte to lubuntu is sadly answered with a "no" T_T

But I would like to ask another question... How do I edit the lubuntu Menu? I would just like to omit but not delete some items in the menu. Can anyone help me with this?

[jeidern]

Bumping for help ^_^

[cavalier911]

What determines a program or functions location in the lxpanel menu plugin is the Categories= of it's .desktop file.

cat /usr/share/applications/abiword.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=abiword
Icon=abiword_48
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Office;WordProcessor;GNOME;GTK;X-Red-Hat-Base;
StartupNotify=true
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.9
MimeType=application/x-abiword;text/x-abiword;text/x-xml-abiword;text/plain;application/msword;application/rtf;application/vnd.plain;application/xhtml+xml;text/html;application/x-crossmark;application/docbook+xml;application/x-t602;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text;application/vnd.sun.xml.writer;application/vnd.stardivision.writer;text/vnd.wap.wml;application/wordperfect6;application/wordperfect5.1;application/vnd.wordperfect;application/x-abicollab;application/vnd.palm;application/x-applix-word;application/x-kword;application/x-mif;application/x-mswrite;application/x-palm-database;text/abiword;text/richtext;text/rtf;application/x-abicollab
Name=AbiWord
GenericName=Word Processor
Comment=Compose, edit, and view documents

Categories list: http://standards.freedesktop.org/men...atest/apa.html

[jeidern]

Im sorry for I am a newbie when it comes to these things. I tried searching for the .desktop file. I checked the /usr/share/applications directory and I can't seem to find it... how do I find it and how do I go about editing the .desktop file?

[lance bermudez]

open terminal and
cd /usr/share/applications
sudo leafpad nameoffile.destop

I have nautilus installed so i would do
sudo leafpad nautilus-browser.desktop
found out the name by using pcmanfm right click properties
now to make then go away look at the example

[Desktop Entry]
Name=File Browser
Comment=Browse the file system with the file manager
TryExec=nautilus
Exec=nautilus --no-desktop --browser %U
Icon=system-file-manager
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
Categories=GTK;System;Utility;Core;
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=nautilus
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=2.30.1
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=nautilus

the above has
NoDisplay=true
OnlyShowIn=GNOME; just add them to the files you dont want to show up I had to take it out of the above file so that nautilus would show up in the menu listings

[matsonfamily]

yeah, I've noticed that Alacarte does show the menu items, but cannot edit them (pressing the properties button). Anyone know where specifically I'm supposed to post a bug like this? I'm not interested in editing files; that's why I use a desktop-environment. Thanks.