Apps :: How to add Programs to the DSL menu?

ive been searching high and low. how do I add a program to the DSL menu? ive downloaded gaim and gimp and would love to add them to the menu for quick starts. I dont want to put th e icons out on the desktop its nice and clean. any help would be much appreciated or a lead to the howto. thanks much

Don't the gaim/gimp extensions have a menu entry already - or did you compile them yourself?

You don't mention if you're using dsl-3.x or dsl-4.x - in dsl-3.x the menu entry is in /home/dsl/.xtdesktop and in dsl-4.x it is in /tmp/."something with menu in the name" (I'm not at a dsl machine at the moment). You can copy and modify an existing entry to make your own.

Quote (Juanito @ Aug. 15 2008,10:00)

im using dsl-4.x I downloaded those programs using my dsl. how do I make my own entry? for instance does it have something to do with the gaim.lnk file it reads like this:
table Icon
Type: Program
Caption: Gaim-1.3.1
Command: /usr/bin/start_gaim
Icon: .xtdesktop/gaim-gtk2-1.3.1.png
X: 495
Y: 185
end
I just dont know what to do with that or where to put it

The file you mention is for dsl-3.x, as said, the equivalent file for dsl-4.x is in /tmp/.*menu* (sorry I cannot remember the exact folder name) - this folder will already contain menu items for the base dsl that you can copy.

If you download gimp-1.2.uci from mydsl testing, it already has a menu item for dsl-4.x

Quote (Juanito @ Aug. 15 2008,10:53)

once I copy it what do I do with it? also I have checked everything in /tmp there is no info in there. there is a folder called mydsl.menu but its empty

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