Introduction to Menus

The way in which the GNOME Desktop implements menus enables you to do the following:

• Customize the menu hierarchy easily. The menu hierarchy is not based on the file system hierarchy. You can edit a small number of files to customize the menu hierarchy. You do not need to modify your applications or move files.

• Install applications easily. You do not need to provide information about the menu hierarchy to applications when you install the applications.

• Configure menus so that users cannot modify the menus.

Menus in the GNOME Desktop use the following components:

• File abstraction layer

• Vfolders

• Desktop entry files

• Directory entry files