Hi
The menu system is one thing that really bothers me in Gnome
and KDE
(of course it's even worse in the others, but I'm barely familiar with
them). Seems to me that having XML files all over the place is going to
get real cumbersome (like it ain't already!). Glad your problem is
solved though.
freedesktop.org has a shared mime system + common .desktop files which
might get better with gnome 2.8 scheduled for inclusion in fc3. not
sure what you dont like about it thou
regards
Rahul Sundaram