[Solved] Application not showing up in Office Menu section

[mikeinpcb]

If you click on "nevernote" in Synaptic, the last line of the package description states: "Application will be under the Office Menu Category"

I have NeverNote installed on a desktop and a netbook running PCLOS 2012 LXDE and a USB drive running PCLOS LXDE-mini.  It does not appear in the Office section on any of three.  I tried to reinstall it, but it still does not appear in the Office menu.  

I finally went to  /usr/share/applications  and launched NeverNote from there.

My question is: How do I get NeverNote to appear in the Office menu section like Abiword, Evince, Gnumeric, and LibreOffice/LOmanager all do?

[Neal ManBear]

As root (file manager superuser mode), go to /usr/share/applications, right click on nevernote and choose open with leafpad. Look at the bottom section of the file. You should see a line that looks like this:     
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;Gcalctool Calculator;X-KDE-Utilities-Desktop;X-MandrivaLinux-Office-Accessories;     

Note that Office section is indicated. If your categories line does not show an Office section entry, copy and paste what it says in a reply here.     

If that is correct, look for a ShowIn= line. It is usually the bottom line. It may say OnlyShowIn or NotShowIn. If it is NotShowIn, and has LXDE; there, remove the LXDE;, save the change and exit leafpad and file manager superuser mode. If it says OnlyShowIn, add LXDE; save the change and exit leafpad and file manager superuser mode. - Note the semicolon at the end of LXDE. It is necessary.     

[mikeinpcb]

As root (file manager superuser mode), go to /usr/share/applications, right click on nevernote and choose open with leafpad. Look at the bottom section of the file. You should see a line that looks like this:     
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;Gcalctool Calculator;X-KDE-Utilities-Desktop;X-MandrivaLinux-Office-Accessories;     

Note that Office section is indicated. If your categories line does not show an Office section entry, copy and paste what it says in a reply here.     

If that is correct, look for a ShowIn= line. It is usually the bottom line. It may say OnlyShowIn or NotShowIn. If it is NotShowIn, and has LXDE; there, remove the LXDE;, save the change and exit leafpad and file manager superuser mode. If it says OnlyShowIn, add LXDE; save the change and exit leafpad and file manager superuser mode. - Note the semicolon at the end of LXDE. It is necessary.     

Here's the content of that file.  The Categories line only shows "Network"

[Desktop Entry]
Name=NeverNote
Comment=Use with Evernote to remember everything
GenericName=Evernote-clone
Exec=/usr/share/nevernote/nevernote.sh
Icon=/usr/share/nevernote/nevernote.png
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;

[Neal ManBear]

Change your categories line to:     
Categories=Office;X-MandrivaLinux-Office-Accessories;     

Use copy and paste.     

[mikeinpcb]

Thanks, that fixed it.  Man, I don't know how you know all this, but you're a true Genius in my book!!!

While you were working on this, I loaded a KDE mini-me Live CD on another notebook and installed NeverNote from Synaptic.  It did not show up in the Office menu there either, so this is obviously not LXDE specific.

Again, thanks a million for your help!

[Neal ManBear]

Thanks, that fixed it.  Man, I don't know how you know all this, but you're a true Genius in my book!!!

     
Scroll up to your first post, click Modify and add [Solved] to the title, please.      
I learned this by needing to add an app to my menu. That was years ago. Now you've learned and can pass it on when the time comes.   

While you were working on this, I loaded a KDE mini-me Live CD on another notebook and installed NeverNote from Synaptic.  It did not show up in the Office menu there either, so this is obviously not LXDE specific.

Again, thanks a million for your help!

     
Yes, the category entry that you posted tells me that it won't get listed correctly for other DEs as well.     

[mikeinpcb]

FYI: This has been corrected in version 0.99-2pclos2012, which is now in the repos.

[Neal ManBear]

FYI: This has been corrected in version 0.99-2pclos2012, which is now in the repos.

     
Yes, I know. I corrected it and sent it to the repo.     

[mikeinpcb]

Thanks, Neal.  I knew that you had corrected it.   I was posting the revision info for historical purposes only, to show that the problem was truly [Solved] all the way into the repos. 

Thanks again for all the great work you do!