linuxmint/Cinnamon — Issue #411: In the Menu, custom categories are not taken into account
Author: crosser
Created: 2012-02-23 09:06:42+00:00
State: open

If you have custom .desktop entries in your $HOME/.local/share/applications/ that are grouped into custom "directories" via $HOME/.config/menus/applications.menu and corresponding entries in $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/, the applications entries are shown in the Cinnamon menu, but they are under "Other" category which makes them hard to find. In Gnome2, they where grouped into a separate category according to the "Menu" section in the applications.menu file.

It would be useful to support "custom categories" as they where in Gnome2. I for one used this feature to group together entries that opened terminal with ssh session to different hosts.

Doing this this would also address Issue #333.