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1. sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/eclipse-luna.desktop

eclipse-luna will be replaced  by your app name

2. copy paste the following lines

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=/home/user/eclipse-version/eclipse/eclipse
Icon=/home/user/eclipse-version/eclipse/icon.xpm
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Comment=Eclipse Integrated Development Environment
Name=Eclipse Luna
GenericName=eclipse-4.4 M4
StartupNotify=false
Categories=Development;IDE;Java;

user will be replaced by your user name.

now save and exit.

if the execution and icon path is correct then the entry will be automatically added to the menu under the programming section.

Description of the lines:

• [Desktop Entry] - indicates that this file is a *.desktop file
• Encoding=encoding used
• Exec=path of a binary or script used to start the program
• Icon - path to the icon for the entry
• Type=Application - desktop file is starting an application
• Terminal=false - the program will not run in a terminal
• Comment=comment about the app
• Name= displayed name in the menu
• GenericName=description of the entry
• StartupNotify=false - Startup notification is turned off
• Categories - specifies the categories in which the entry will be placed in the menu (several categories are specified with a semicolon between them, e.g. 'Game;Education')