Re: Frustration -- can't find icon picker application ??

[Calum Benson <calum benson ORACLE COM>]

On 26 Jun 2010, at 23:14, William Case wrote:

> Hi;
> 
> What is the name of the little application that pops up when you are
> trying to pick a new icon in a launcher ?  

Assuming you mean the one in Solaris 10 (OpenSolaris just uses the standard file chooser dialog here now), it's not an application, it's basically just a standard(ish) widget, like the file chooser or the print dialog.

> More to the point -- the browse drop down menu has about 25 addresses in
> it, mostly repeats. How would I remove most of those unnecessary
> addresses? 

In gconf-editor, look for /apps/gnome-settings/gnome-panel/history-desktop-icon, and double-click to edit.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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