Menus and the menu editor

[Chris Hoover <choover home com>]

I've just upgraded to .30 via .deb packages, and am having some problems
with my menu's.  Apparently gnome has taken to makeing the menu's from
everything in the /usr/share/apps directory.  However, this directory
contains many items that I don't want in the directory (like a bunch of
stuff from when I've ran kde).  When I run the menu editor and try to
delete the items, it tells me that I must be root to do this
(apparently, it is trying to delete the files/directories?).

Anyway, is there a way to configure gnome so that it won't pick up the
unwanted items in the menu w/o deleting them from the /usr/share/apps
directory?

I'm not sure if this is a problem from running kde or not.  I switched
to kde a week or two ago, but switched back to e after kde kept freezing
up on me.   Anyway, I still don't really want to have to delete those
kde files.


Thanks,
Chris