Customizing the gnome menus
I am building a demo environment. I want to use the gnome ui and create menu items like jdeveloper, sqldeveloper, sqlplus etc to make it easier for users to get started. So far I have:
1. create desktop items in ~/.local/share/applications
2. created a new menu ~/.config/menus/demo.menu
3. created a supporting directory entry ~/.local/share/desktop-directories/demo.directory
4. modified ~/.config/menus/applications.menu, which references /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu and added
<Menu>
<Name>Demo</Name>
<MergeFile>demo.menu</MergeFile>
</Menu>
But when I restart gnome the new menu does not show up under Applications.
I've verified the category (DSSTools. one I made up) in the xxx.desktop files matches the categories in the demo.menu file.
If I add a category like "Internet" to the desktop items they show up on that menu (and work), so I know it is not the jdeveloper.desktop (etc.) file.
I've run out of ideas.