how does one edit the menu in FC16?

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 02/24/2012 10:38 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:27:55 -0800
> Todd And Margo Chester<toddandmargo at gmail.com>  dijo:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am going out to a customer next week that I installed
>> FC16 Xfce 64 bit from the Live CD on last week.
>>
>> To my horror, in FC16, Alacarte does not work:
>>      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734442
>>
>> And, lxmed has "another instance running".
>>
>> Okay, http://lxmed.sourceforge.net/ has since said he
>> has fixed that error.
>>
>> Very frustrating.
>>
>> So, I thought I'd ask you guys what your preferred
>> method of editing the menu is.  Any thoughts?
>>
>> Someone said this might work:
>>       https://github.com/efruchter/Gnome3_AppMenuEditor/downloads
>
> I find editing menus in Xfce to be a pain in my precious tushie. And
> we're talking about a tushie that is inured to being sat on and other
> indignities.
>
> The LXDE Main Menu editor sort of works, but is no where near as fully
> featured as Alacarte. Worse, it is buggy and does unexpected things.
>
> There is a text file with the menu settings, but editing it is also
> problematic. You must figure out the syntax it uses to determine what
> is a folder and what is an entry within a folder. And after you do that
> you discover that sometimes the syntax doesn't work. Usually you have
> to edit the menu files, but then again you have to figure out the syntax
> they use. And good luck with that because there are two systems in use
> side by side.
>
> Xfce desperately needs a decent menu editor.

Hear! Hear!