Alacarte: Installing Fedora’s (or Gnome’s) Graphical Menu Editor
Since Fedora 7, you’re able to edit Fedora’s, or more specifically, Gnome’s graphical menu, also known as desktop menu. However, it’s not until I have started using Gnome Do (equivalent to Mac’s great Quicksilver app) that I’ve started to worry how my menu looked like, since Gnome Do seems to index applications in the main menu.
However, at least in Fedora 12, the ability to edit Gnome’s graphical menu is not available by default, hence you need to figure out the package that needs installing. The name of the package is not straightforward though and figuring out took some time. This is actually called alacarte, which is a less than obvious package name.
Once the package has been installed, to edit the menu, simply go to System > Preferences > Main Menu
Tagged as fc12, fedora, gnome + Categorized as How To
Thanks, I couldn’t find it myself. I agree that it’s a bad choice for a package name, it should be something like “gnome-menu-editor”.
Thanks for the tip. Helped me with my new Fedora 13 install. :)
gracias :) i really need edit my menu thanks
thanks!
In fedora 13, just go to Add/Remove Software
then find “Alacarte” (without “”)
then apply, it’s going to ask your root password.
then you’re done!