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Introduction to Menus

The GNOME Desktop implements menus according to the XDG menu specification. By supporting this specification, GNOME allows you to:

  • Customize the menu hierarchy easily. 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:

  • Menu definition files

  • Desktop entry files

  • Directory entry files


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