Editing the Gnome Menu

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 00:49 -0400, Chris Spencer wrote:
> What's the easiest way to edit one's local and global menu items in 
> Gnome? It appears the default Gnome distributed with FC3 doesn't have 
> any of the direct menu-editing functionality compiled in. I've been able 
> to modify my menu somewhat as root, by editing the files in 
> /usr/share/applications, but this is horribly obscure and unintuitive. 
> Is there a better way?

	It depends what exactly you want to do. If you want to delete items
from the menu or add new items, then
its /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu you want to edit.

	GNOME 2.12 will include a menu editor.

Cheers,
Mark.