Desktop Folders And Shortcuts

[dolcex]

Is there a way to move application shortcuts from folder to folder, and create or remove  folders from the desktop (and panel menu)?  A lot of the folder structure makes NO sense (i.e. Gaim in "Other"...)

Plus, say I move sylpheed from the "Other" folder to a new folder called "PIM".  What will happen when I uninstall sylpheed?

A GUI app for customizing the panel menu and desktop layout would be great.

[lardman]

I think the shortcut files are called *.desktop, try a search for them.

Iirc, they are located smoewhere under /usr/local/share/

You can just move them around and it should do what you want.


Si

[dolcex]

Thank you for the info.  FYI

I found the desktop folder in:
/usr/share/matchbox/vfolders/

and the .desktop files are in:
/usr/share/applications/


what I did:
1. create a new vfolder in /usr/share/matchbox/vfolders/
 (i.e. Network.directory)
2. edit /usr/share/matchbox/vfolders/Root.order and add the new vfolder name to it
3. edit .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/
I think this line controls which folder it shows up in:
Categories=Application;Network;

This page is helpful:
http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/docume.../mbdesktop.html


Update:  some of the .desktop files contain unicode (international?) characters, which chokes up vi.  I saved some changes anyway, and bricked matchbox desktop as a result.  beware.