Fedora 15 Gnome3 add compiled from git pgadmin3 to applications menu

compile pgadmin3 from git in /opt/installs/ – use the instruction at the git pgadmin repository
when you have it compiled :

cp /opt/installs/pgadmin3/pkg/pgadmin3.desktop /usr/share/applications
ln -s /usr/local/bin/pgadmin3 /usr/bin/
mkdir /usr/share/pgadmin3/
cp /opt/installs/pgadmin3/pgadmin/include/images/pgAdmin3.png /usr/share/pgadmin3/
root@darkstar:[Mon Jul 04 15:48:06]:[/usr/share/applications]$ cat pgadmin3.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=pgAdmin III
Exec=/usr/bin/pgadmin3
Icon=/usr/share/pgadmin3/pgAdmin3.png
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Development;
MimeType=text/html
DocPath=/usr/share/pgadmin3/docs/en_US/index.html
Comment=PostgreSQL Tools

the trick of adding custom app at Gnome3 application menu is taken from here:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1480880

done

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