Menu Editing In Gnome 2.6 (FC2)--Very Cumbersome

[Richard Huelbig <huelbig optonline net>]

Just passing along some thoughts on menu-editing in Gnome 2.6 that comes 
with Fedora Core 2. I would be happy to hear of any plans to improve 
this capability in future releases:


Well, I think I finally got this menu-editing problem figured out. With 
the help of these two articles,

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=18160

http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/menuediting.html

and piecing together bits of information from the internet, I was able 
to clean up the menus as desired, adding menu icons that were missing, 
and making some of the menu listing names somewhat more meaningful.

The key to this whole thing is in the .desktop files as indicated in the 
two articles. The problem is 1) the .desktop files are not all located 
in the /usr/share/application directory, and 2) the name of the .desktop 
file is not always a "hint" as to the menu item it represents.

All-in-all, and hopefully someone from the Gnome development group will 
read these postings, menu editing in FC2's Gnome desktop, while do-able, 
is a real p-i-t-a. I'm not sure why this (I believe) basic desktop 
capability has been so overlooked but I hope it does get better as new 
versions of Gnome are released.

Regards,

Richard Huelbig