Modifying menu structure without changing distribution files

I?d like to rearrange some aspects of the menu, but I don?t want to edit the files that are part of the Kali distribution, such as to not having collisions.
What?s the recommended way of doing that? i.e. where should I place a corresponding .menu file, and what name should it have?

Looking at what?s around, there are so many files that end up coming together in what?s defined in

Code:

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/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kali-applications.menu

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, so what I?d like to have is a local/user file that?s evaluated after that file gets processed, such as to make incremental changes to the menu structure as it?s defined once that file is processed. What I tried so far doesn?t work, and I don?t want to just roll my own menus from scratch (that would work, but defeats the purpose)

Hints welcome?.