To edit the main menu on based desktops GTK there are 2 ways: by mitt or by installing an editor like alacarte. The downside of alacarte is that with it, the gnome panel is also installed, which installs heaviness de GNOME that are unnecessary. Now they don't need to suffer. I present to you MenuLibre.
The program starts showing the menu categories and entering these are the launchers belonging to that category. There is also a launcher search engine. By clicking on a launcher, it can be edited both graphically and manually. The program also adds icon search and quicklist editing for Unity. And all that without installing GNOME dependencies, therefore it is convenient for users of XFCE y LXDE.
For users of Ubuntu and derivatives, you can install it by doing
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:menulibre-dev/devel
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install menulibre
While for the other distros (my case), they can go to the page of Launchpad, download the latest tar.gz, compile it and install it (you will need the python-distutils-extra package)
https://launchpad.net/menulibre
URL: http://www.smdavis.us/projects/menulibre/
And the forum?
This tool looks great, you have convinced me friend 🙂
and if I already have alacarte installed, and I want to change it for this one…. can i remove all the gnome nonsense i dont use ??
give him with faith that I removed the gnome-panel in my Sabayon with Xfce
Very good ... In fact I didn't even know that Alacarte existed ... I discovered it because I realized that they are in Ubuntu, just by typing the word "Menu" it opened up to me ... Then I asked myself the question, What is the name of this application and what is its name? the reality and why in Fedora does not bring it by Default?
Reading a little and putting my hand I discovered with the real name «Alacarte» 🙂
Although I still have the question, why doesn't it come by Default in Fedora?
I dont know. It is an application designed for the Gnome 2 (or the classic)
I have always used Alacarte. Now with Gnome 3 it does not work so well and I think it has a substitute, very similar but with limitations. This option is very good but it confuses me a lot with the icons. To begin with, it shows you the real ones of each application and not the ones you are using as a theme, which makes it difficult for you to see which ones are really problematic and that do not change with the theme used. And on the other hand, many icons do not show them (neither the original nor the tuned one) which contributes to the mess. The truth at the moment I prefer something like Alacarte.
OH, going down to test it on Xfce, which until now used LXMED. Compile it? What are you going to do, put the PPA in Debian and that's it 😛
Hey.
Thank you. I did not know him.
Installed on Debian Squeeze. And Ubuntu 12.04.
A greeting.
Let's install it to see how it is!
Regards!
Excellent app!
Thanks for the free menu, it's fabulous!