Menu protocol.

[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:36:03 -0800, George Farris wrote:
> Whats the protocol as far as adding a top level menu under Applications?
> I want to port a number of Ham radio apps over and put them in their own
> menu called.. wait for it.. Amateur Radio.
> 
> Would this be frowned upon?  The apps would be coming from universe.

I think it'd be better to formalise a new category as an extension to the
FDO .desktop spec, then adjust the upstream menu XML definition, assuming
there is one (they always look the same on GNOME based distros so I expect
there is).

That way it's not Ubuntu specific.

thanks -mike