Hi,

Is there any way to customize the default applications menu?

I mean... all sound & video apps go to the SOUND & VIDEO submenu in the application menu, but I would like to erase some entries for just showing the apps I want to show, like only showing RealPlayer, Totem, Rhythmbox, MPlayer and the CD Juicer in the sound & video submenu, making a new submenu called Video Editing to be able to place launchers for Kino and other DV applications, a submenu called Imaging (or similar name) for placing Gimp, Dia, and other applications..

That's what I mean... and my question is... is this possible? how is this stored in my profile or in the system profile? and... can I edit that configuration 'on the fly' or... maybe I must edit it in pure console mode without starting GNOME?

Thanks in advance,

Julio

i don't know a lot about gnome, but after a google search of "edit gnome menu" it seems like you need to go to "applications:///" in nautilus and edit it from there. if your distro doesn't support that (which i guess some don't for some reason), search google for "distro edit gnome menu."

Neither KDE nor GNOME support menu editing anymore Not many people seem to want it, and it's not seen as a high priority as a result. It's also quite complicated thanks to our super-over-engineered new menu system.

I don't understand why it has to be so complicated. So there's no way to edit the menu? I can't remove faulty entries and I can't add missing apps.

I would point you to the official 2.x docs, but they seem to be down right now. This is the one for the future 2.8, which essentially has the same info.

http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/doctabl...enustructure-0

that's why i use fluxbox - it's so simple and straightforward. you just edit a file called "menu" in ~/.fluxbox. it can't really get any easier than that.

Try dragging and dropping your menu items to the menu for GNOME. That worked the last time I tried anything.

Also, right click on the item you want to delete and choose Remove This Item. To add something else to a menu, right click on an item in the menu and choose Entire Menu > Add New Item To This Menu

For items in the menu you want erased go here:
/usr/share/applications, look in this directory and you will see lots of .desktop files, if you don't want one of these to show in the menu just rm someprogram.desktop, log out of gnome and back in the entry will be gone. As for adding items look at some of these .desktop files, use that format to add launchers in the menu. As for adding new menu in the main application menu, I'm just starting to investigate this.

I feel kinda stupid. All I had to do was right click on an item. Thanks!

I'm also in the same boat. I'd like to add and remove and move around items in the menu. I tried right clicking on an item, but the option to remove it is grayed out. How to I get it to work? I can't belive that all the progress that Linux has made, this hasn't been included. I seem to remember either the older redhat or mandrake versions had an gui tool for managing the menu.

it's not linux, it's gnome, or it's just desktop environments in general for that matter. see link below.