Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 268

Changing a System-Wide Menu
Alacarte enables you to edit the system-wide Main menu for all users on the system,
and distribute it to other computers. These additional systems need not have an identical
setup to use the new menu.
NOTE
Changing the system-wide menu requires administrative privileges for the
computer whose menu you want to change.
To change a system-wide menu and distribute it:
1 Open Alacarte, using the launcher for the system-wide menu editor.
2 Enter the root password.
3 Make the desired changes to the menu, as described in
4 Click Close.
The changes you made now appear for all users of the system.
Distributing a System-Wide Menu to Other Computers
The changes you make to the system-wide menu are saved in the /etc/opt/gnome/
alacarte-system directory. To use this menu on other computers:
1 Copy the /etc/opt/gnome/alacarte-system directory to the other
2 Copy the following lines from the /etc/profile.d/xdg-enviroment
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See Section "Starting Alacarte"
Menu" (page 247).
computers.
.sh file on the original system to the /etc/profile.d/xdg-enviroment
.sh file on the target system:
#START SECTION ADDED BY ALACARTE
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/etc/opt/gnome/alacarte_system:$XDG_DATA_DIRS
(page 246) for more information.
Section "Editing the