Gnome3 - Adding custom applications (Linux Mint)
Linux Mint 12 doesn't ship with the application to edit the "Main Menu" by default. Since Gnome3 relies heavily on typing in application names, you need to be able to add new applications to the menu list.
Luckily you can just create per-user .desktop files that will be quickly picked up by the Gnome3 launcher.
The folder location is ~/.local/share/applications/
Just add the .desktop files, as desired. For example:
~/.local/share/applications/Eclipse.desktop
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Eclipse Categories=; Comment=Eclipse Comment[en_CA]=Eclipse Development Environment Exec=/opt/eclipse/eclipse Icon=/opt/eclipse/eclipse-reflective.png Hidden=false Terminal=false Type=Application GenericName[en_CA]=
