How to create a submenu to a registered category with xdg-desktop-menu?

[Frédéric Mercille]

> 2009/9/3 Frédéric Mercille:
> > I know I can use xdg-desktop-menu to add an application to a "registered
> > category" (e.g. Office) in the desktop menu with a *.desktop file, and I can 
also
> > add a new submenu at the root of the desktop menu with a *.directory file. 
What
> > I would like to do, however, is create a submenu in a submenu that is 
already
> > present.
> >
> > Here's an example of what I would like to have :
> >
> > (MENU)
> >  |
> >  +-- Games
> >  +-- Graphics
> >  +-- [...]
> >  |
> >  +-- Office
> >  |     |
> >  |     +-- MyVendorName
> >  |     |       |
> >  |     |       +-- MyAppName1
> >  |     |       +-- MyAppName2
> >  |     |       +-- MyAppName3
> >  |     |
> >  |     +-- OpenOffice.org
> >  |     +-- Evolution
> >  |     +-- Kontact
> >  |     +-- [...]
> >  |
> >  +-- Settings
> >  +-- System
> >
> >
> > Using xdg-desktop-menu install MyVendorName.directory MyAppName.desktop
> > creates a submenu at the root of the menu (sibbling of Games, Graphics, 
Office,
> > etc.), but I don't want to pollute the root with my apps which clearly 
belong
> > under the Office category (and the Category key is ignored for an entry of
> > Type=Directory). Does xdg-desktop-menu allow that?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> The documentation in freedesktop.org should be sufficient for you.
> Here is an example for submenus and subsubmenus to multimedia menu
> that I wrote using that documentation:
> http://oget.fedorapeople.org/multimedia-menus/SOURCE/
> 
> Orcan
> 


If I understand your example correctly, at no point did you use any of the 
xdg-utils (either xdg-icon-resource for the icons, or xdg-desktop-menu for the 
menus), nor the $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS or $XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variables? From 
what I gather from your example and from the documentation, the answer to 
"Does xdg-desktop-menu allow the creation of a submenu in a submenu?" is "No 
it doesn't". You just copy your files to /usr/share and to /etc/xdg and pray 
for the best, or am I missing something?