<div dir="ltr"><div>Look at /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu:  <Menu> <Name>Internet</Name> <Directory>Network.directory</Directory> <Include> <And> <Category>Network</Category> <Not><Category>X-GNOME-WebApplication</Category></Not> </And> </Include> <Exclude>  <Filename>vinagre.desktop</Filename>  <Filename>javaws.desktop</Filename> </Exclude> </Menu>  </div>Alacarte loads the existing menu file, notes the category it was in, and puts an Exclude for it. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Jerome Leclanche <<a href="mailto:adys.wh@gmail.com" target="_blank">adys.wh@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> If you're looking for code, <a href="https://github.com/lxde/libqtxdg/blob/master/xdgmenu.cpp" target="_blank">https://github.com/lxde/libqtxdg/blob/master/xdgmenu.cpp</a> is a good starting point. J. Leclanche <div><div class="h5"> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:26 PM, José Félix Ontañon <<a href="mailto:fontanon@emergya.com">fontanon@emergya.com</a>> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to build an app that automatizes the excluding of some launchers > from menu, by tweaking ~/.config/xdg/menus I've noticed the Categories in > the xdg-desktop aren't the same as the menu names in xdg-menu. > > So, the question is given a .desktop file, how to know the name of it's > corresponding menu? > > ::Example:: > > The firefox desktop file has as categories: > Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser; > > But the the menu names that needs to be indicated to exclude firefox from > the menu is Applications->Internet. Below the code produced by Alacarte: > > <Menu> > <Name>Applications</Name> > <MergeFile > type="parent">/etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu</MergeFile> > <Menu> > <Name>Internet</Name> > <Exclude> > <Filename>firefox.desktop</Filename> > </Exclude> > </Menu> > </Menu> > > I don't understand how Alacarte got that Applications->Internet path given > the firefox.desktop file. > > Regards! > > -- > J. Félix Ontañón Carmona > > </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > <a href="mailto:xdg@lists.freedesktop.org">xdg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg</a> > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list <a href="mailto:xdg@lists.freedesktop.org">xdg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg</a> </blockquote></div> -- Jasper </div>