Unable to edit applications menu in Gnome

[Justin Georgeson]

Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With the standard Fedora install it's not possible to edit Applications 
> Menu. I found on the internet how to do it. They consider it as a "bug" 
> in RH 9.0, which is still present in Fedora.
> 
> http://www.wse.jhu.edu/newtnotes/main_file.php/sysadmin/55
> 
> Is there any reason to make the menu not editable??
> 
> I would prefer to have the menu editable and preferably an icon in the 
> menu, which opens nautilus at applications:///


I always just did it the 'hard' way and put .desktop files in 
/usr/share/applications. Not drag-and-drop but it works.