Editing activities/applications menu in F15

[westand]

Recently made the switch to F15 and GNOME3. The changes are a little jarring, but I'm trying to have some good faith, see how I adjust to things, etc.

Any ways, the applications menu (in "fallback" mode) or the 'activities -> applications' menus (in "full" mode) have every application I've ever installed, some times poorly classified. I'd like to edit these, making more minimal menus.

There is, of course, the "alacarte" application. While it runs just fine -- the changes are not reflected in the menus (in either mode). One could manually edit the desktop configuration text files, I assume, but as much work as I need to do -- I was hoping for a GUI application. Does an alternative exist? or a way to interface them? Thanks!

[doskey]

Currently no, there will possibly be one in the future. Though I don't know why alacarte doesn't work...

[Miikka]

Alacarte works just fine with me. Have you tried alt+f2 and typing just r and enter? It should refresh menus.

[Doug Hutcheson]

I have just upgraded from FC14 to 15 and have exactly the same issue as the OP. I installed and ran alacarte, clearing the tick box for items I no longer want in the menus. This had no effect. I tried Alt+F2 and typing r and enter, but this also had no effect.

The menus are now cluttered with old items I had under FC14 and have not bothered to reinstall. Every item displayed by alacarte is presented, whether or not it has the checkbox cleared.

Also, alacarte shows a separate submenu for Wine items, but there is no corresponding submenu item in Activities/Applications.

Having the ability to edit properties is also required. For example, Skype requires a library preloaded on the command line:
"env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype".

Editing menus should not be this hard, should it?