It puts them in ~/.local/share/applications/

you’re so right about struggling to remember the names of rarely-used commands.

i use quicklauncher (a panel tool) for commonly used stuff, but there are lots of things i don’t use very often and they’d just clog up the layout if i put them in the quick launcher.

xfce4-menueditor lets you add things to the menu but it won’t let you add things to the applications submenus. I’m still not entirely sure how the submenus are decided since some of my .desktop files mention things like “AudioVideo” but the menu entry shows up in the “multimedia” submenu.

sorry, that’s a much longer comment than i was planning on leaving, but never mind. Thanks again!