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→Adding and Deleting a Menu Item
[[Image:ubuntu_desktop_create_launcher2.jpg|Adding new item to an Ubuntu desktop menu]]
Begin by selecting the type of application to be launched. This must be one of the following categories:
* '''Application''' - A standard, GUI based application.
* '''Application in terminal''' - An application which needs to be run inside a Terminal window (typically a text based application).
* '''Location''' - Opens a specified file system location.
In the ''Name'' field, enter the name to be displayed in the menu. Next enter the path and name of the command to be launched when the menu item is selected into the ''Command'' field. If you are unsure of the full path to the tool, use the ''Browse'' option to navigate the file system to find the application executable. For example, we might want to add a menu option to launch the ''gedit'' editing tool. To do so we would enter ''GEdit'' into the ''Name'' field and ''gedit'' into the ''Command'' field. The ''Comment'' field provides a place to enter optional descriptive text which will be displayed if the mouse pointer hovers over the menu option.