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[KI7MT <ki7mt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

While working on another project, I ran into a package they may assist
in menu management for C4C, appropriately named "menu" :-) Note, the
package says "Debian menu system" but that also applies to Ubuntu
menu-aware Desktops.

Package Info:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/menu

* install-menu
Description
update-menus(1) computes the list of menu entries and passes it in turn
to  the  menu methods in /etc/menu-methods/. The task of a menu methods
is to generate menus  for  a  specific  window  manager.   install-menu
provides  a  generic and customizable way to do that. The documentation
of the install-menu definition language is available in the Debian Menu
manual, a local copy being available in /usr/share/doc/menu/html.

Link: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/install-menu.1.html

* update-menus
Description:
Before the advent  of  update-menus,  when  the  system  administrators
installed  a  package  onto  a  Debian  system, they would need to edit
various window manager configuration files to make the new program show
up  on, for example, fvwm's menus. The menus could easily become out of
sync with what programs were actually available, with some  menu  items
that didn't work, and other programs that lacked a menu entry.  update-
menus and Debian's menu package aim to solve this problem.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/update-menus.1.html

* menufile
Description:
Menu files  add  entries  to  the  Debian  menu  system.  The  system
administrator can place menu files in /etc/menu/ to override menu files
that  packages add to /usr/share/menu/ .  The user can place menu files
in ~/.menu/ to override all other menu files.

Link http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man5/menufile.5.html


best regards,

Greg.