Add a category to Cinnamon menu

[JohannesBrahms]

I am interested to write a file to add a new category to Cinnamon menu. In Gnome, for example, if I add the following file /etc/xdg/menus/applications-gnome-merged/wine.menu:

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<!DOCTYPE Menu
  PUBLIC '-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN'
  'http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-1.0.dtd'>
<Menu>
   <Name>Applications</Name>
   <Menu>
      <Name>wine-wine</Name>
      <Directory>Wine.directory</Directory>
      <Include>
         <Category>X-Wine</Category>
      </Include>
   </Menu>
</Menu>


and the file /usr/share/desktop-directories/Wine.directory

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Directory
Name=Wine
Icon=wine


, all the desktop files with the line

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Categories=X-Wine;


will be added as item to Wine category, and not to to "Others".
If I want add a personal category to existing categories (AudioVideo, System, Development, Office, Graphics...), there is a way? Cinnamon ignore all my settings, and add the programs to "Others" is the category is not one of the default ones.
N.B. I want add a personal category, not Wine.
N.B.2 I search for add systems files to the default ones, not to change them. So, if tomorrow I want add another category, I will add another files, without change the old ones.
Thank you

Marco

[kc1di]

if your running cinnamon 1.6 it's as simple as right clicking the menu button and selecting edit menu then add new menu works great.