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Can I edit which icons appear in the Unity dash?

I did fresh install to 11.10 and I am unable to find a menu editor. Please do not post methods offered by 11.04 as none of them work. This question goes for the 11.10 users who made a fresh install and found an answer.

What I need to do is create a custom menu entry for many aplications.

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Do you mean quicklists? – jrg♦ Oct 17 '11 at 17:16
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Can you add some detail to your question? What kind of menu entry, like in the dash itself or ... ? – Jorge Castro Oct 17 '11 at 17:17
Do you mean the old style main menu editor? open dash and type main menu and there it is – duffydack Oct 17 '11 at 17:55
the title explains it. Dash menu editor. There is no such thing as main menu in dash. – Cresho Oct 17 '11 at 18:42
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You should explain what you mean. Do you mean the eight icons in the dash itself, or one of the lenses? – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Oct 17 '11 at 19:19
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I understand what he meant, in the old days you could right click on menu and edit, now the answer is to install alacarte.

sudo apt-get install alacarte

Alacarte can be run from the terminal or the Unity Dash.

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I got this working using a slightly modified version of this question's first answer List of custom Launchers & Quicklists for Unity

I'm not sure it's the best way though; among other things, I had to hardcode in my homedir path because it wouldn't work if I used ~ or $HOME. This launches nautilus, but you could run anything by changing the 'Exec' line.

Instructions:

Copy 'Home Folder' launcher file to your home directory:

cp /usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop ~/.local/share/applications

Open the file for editing in gedit:

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop

Find the following line from the file:

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;

Replace the above line with:

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;

Add this text to the bottom of the file, substituting in your home directory path:

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Videos;Documents;Music;Pictures;Downloads
[Videos Shortcut Group]
Name=Videos
Exec=nautilus /home/YOURUSERNAME/Videos
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Documents Shortcut Group]
Name=Documents
Exec=nautilus /home/YOURUSERNAME/Documents
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Music Shortcut Group]
Name=Music
Exec=nautilus /home/YOURUSERNAME/Music
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Pictures Shortcut Group]
Name=Pictures
Exec=nautilus /home/YOURUSERNAME/Pictures
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Downloads Shortcut Group]
Name=Downloads
Exec=nautilus /home/YOURUSERNAME/Downloads
TargetEnvironment=Unity

Save and close the file.

Log out and log in again to see the changes.

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#sudo apt-get install alacarte gnome-panel then i logged off and log back in. Appearantly, I can't edit menu in current state. Since I have too many custom applications to add to the menu with a text editor, it isnt productive. at least I like the new 11.10 since pulseaudio or alsa is working properly. – Cresho Oct 17 '11 at 18:57
Yes it is. It does depend on what you mean by menu though. There are many. Not all can be edited, since many of them are completely dynamic. The music store, for instance, will search the actual music store over the network, so it would make no sense to make that editable. – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Oct 17 '11 at 19:21
what alacarte did for gnome-panel. thats what im looking for! – Cresho Oct 17 '11 at 19:38
I migrated over to kubuntu 11.10 for now. I like unity but it's not ready for prime time. I couldn't work!, i mean do my job at work with inability to do certain things. Kubuntu is more usable now with vsync working properly this time (adjusting settings work). I will wait till it becomes more usable. Reminds me of when kubuntu was first released. – Cresho Oct 18 '11 at 21:15
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Some nice people are already developing a solution to your problem.

https://launchpad.net/unity-launcher-editor

Please be patient, as it is not yet ready for use.

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How to Create a custom launcher in Unity?


The link above should give you an answer.
Like

http://www.techdrivein.com/2011/10/15-things-i-did-after-installing-new.html

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Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – Roland Taylor Feb 2 at 19:27
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