I'm running Fedora Core 2 on my laptop using the stock Gnome GDE. I would like to customize the main menu (aka the start menu or the RedHat menu) but I can't seem to find the menu editor. I believe KDE has a handy utility for editing the main menu, so why doesn't Gnome? I did a little research on the net and I read that the developers of Fedora don't want users messing with the menu items so packages can place icons in the menu and so newbies can't screw up the menu. I tried replacing /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf with default-modules.conf.with-menu-editing but all that accomplished was to remove all the menu entries from the main menu. I returned to the original default-modules.conf and the problem was solved. Did I do something wrong? Does anyone know where I can find the Gnome menu editor? Or if it is disabled, how I can enable it? I appreciate any help! Urkle10

"I did a little research on the net and I read that the developers of Fedora don't want users messing with the menu items so packages can place icons in the menu and so newbies can't screw up the menu." If that's true and not just someone's opinion or rumour, then install something other than Fedora.

I gave up on Gnome after 1.4 I think it was . It was RH 7.3 I use Slack as well there is no menu editor for gnome on slack either. I find KDE to be a far superior desktop environment to gnome.Use KDE.Evolution is the only good thing to come from gnome(Xiamian) in my opinion I find all of them better than gnome. Try blackbox.

I use xfce quite a lot. It is lightweight and fast. Gnome does seem to be getting less configurable each release, sometimes I fire it up just for a difference but soon go back to xfce or kde. I do still use gnumeric and a few other gnome apps but prefer thunderbird to evolution for email.