This is a quick guide to menu/launcher editing - but I haven`t done extensive testing. If all is well, I`ll add this to the howto. It deals mainly with creating entries, but will show the path to removing entries as well, using the
.order files.
First off, launch the application you want to create an 'icon' for.
Click the top left corner (but not the border!) with the left mouse button and select "Create Icon". Note that you need e_utils (which needs e17/libs/engrave) installed in order for this to work. (You should have this package installed already if you followed the howto.)
An .eapp file will be created and moved to
~/.e/e/applications/all.
Next, you need to add this .eapp file to the relevant
.order file. These order files are what e17 parses when starting the apps, and are stored in the following directories:
Code:
iBar: ~/.e/e/applications/bar
E17 menu: ~/.e/e/applications/favourite
Engage: ~/.e/e/applications/engage
Here's and example iBar .order file:
Code:
firefox.eapp
xmms.eapp
engage.eapp
entice.eapp
evidence.eapp
Note that you can also create subdirectories for the menu. Simply make directories within
~/.e/e/applications/favourite and create
.order files in each one of them.
Here's an example:
assuming that you have the following directories
Code:
~/.e/e/applications/favourite/music
~/.e/e/applications/favourite/web
you can make a
~/.e/e/applications/.order which contains the following text:
Code:
terminal.eapp
music
web
This would create a menu that first shows the terminal icon and then has 2 directories -
music and
web. Following this system you'll also need to create .order files in those directories to select what .eapp files to have and in what order you want them to be in.
If you don`t want to create your own icons - the author of engage has a ton of them rolled already for your pleasure
here .
Note, that this has been heavily lifted from the site I linked to in the howto - but I`ve parsed it and packaged nicely for my fellow Ubuntians.
Good luck, and let us know if it works.
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