FOUND A WORKAROUND
1) Your menus are {file-name}.desktop in /usr/share/applications/
2) You can use a text editor (I use gedit) to create your {file-
name}.desktop files and save to documents folder.
Then use a root-enabled file manager (I use Krusader, the twin-panels
make this easier) to move or copy {file-name}.desktop to
/usr/share/applications/
Waite few seconds for the new menu entry to be integrated. That's it.
EXAMPLES that worked:
EschalonBookTwo.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon[en_US]=/home/tecknomage/Pictures/Logos/Eschalon.jpg
Name[en_US]=Eschalon Book-2
Exec=padsp /home/tecknomage/bin/eschalon_book_2/eschalon_book_2
Name=Eschalon Book-2
Icon=/home/tecknomage/Pictures/Logos/Eschalon.jpg
Categories=Game;Application;
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TheCave.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon[en_US]=steam_icon_221810
Name[en_US]=The Cave
Exec=/usr/bin/steam steam://rungameid/221810
Name=The Cave
Icon=steam_icon_221810
Categories=Game;Application;
****IMPORTANT: In "Categories" the entry "Game;" will be in red because
it is NOT correct in the system, BUT using the real "Games" did NOT
work. Have no idea why, just that the two examples above did work.
This points to the problem with the menu editor utility [Main Menu], [Add
Item], it does NOT set Categories at all.
The easiest fix for the maintainer is to ADD a dialog entry line for
"Categories" so we can either manually enter it or show a drop-down with
the default in accordance to the hi-lighted choices in the left-half
panel of [Main Menu] utility.
The reason that my old menus (in the [Other] folder that I deleted) was
the installers must have categorized them but this version of [Main
Menu] did not pick that up. I note that EVERY menu item from Ubuntu
13.04 was in [Other] including ones that were all ready in my menus in
Ubuntu 13.10.
I now have back all the missing menu items that were on my Ubuntu 13.04
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