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Where (or how) does menulibre get its information for "Category Name" and "Description"?

Asked by Peter Freeman

Where (or how) does menulibre get its information for "Category Name" and "Description" so as to place it in the correct menu. For example, when I run "sudo apt-cache show vym", I get "Section: universe/kde" but nowhere do I see in the information that comes from the apt cache that vym should be placed in the menu section "Office".

I'm trying to find this out because I have an automated install that installs large numbers of package for a group of people and I would like to properly categorize the packages into the correct menu categories. Right now, all I can get from "apt-cache show ." are these sections:

Admin, Cli-Mono, Comm, Database, Debug, Devel, Doc, Editors, Education, Electronics, Fonts, Games, Gnome, Graphics, Hamradio, Java, Kde, Libdevel, Libs, Lisp, Localization, Mail, Math, Metapackages, Misc, Net, Oldlibs, Otherosfs, Python, Science, Sound, Tex, Text, Unknown, Utils, Vcs, Video, Web, X11.

I would like to know if it is possible (and how) to find out in which menu does an installed package end up BEFORE it is installed.

Thank you.

Peter

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

I assume that this information is taken from certain fields in the /usr/share/applications/*.desktop file of the application to be installed.

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Peter Freeman (petersfreeman) said : 		#2

Hi Manfred,

It appears that I need to install the application to find out its menu positioning properties. I had checked out /usr/share/application area using the nautilus file manager. After right clicking on an application and selecting "Properties", no menu positioning information was revealed.

I took your suggestion and this time did a cat of the *.desktop files and saw that there was a lot more information available to me than what was revealed using nautilus.

I can get the information I need now.

Thank you,

Peter

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George Brown (idlerwheel) said : 		#3

Working in Mint 19.1, xfce desktop: In the Whisker Menu, I have edited some of the menu entries either in Whisker Menu or in MenuLibre, to add to their names or to change their descriptions. I want to make file that displays the results of all my edits,

I tried to look at the *.desktop files, as suggested here, above. Well, this produced the information, but what what I saw was the entries as they existed before my edits.

Where is MenuLibre keeping the this data as it exists now?