[Discuss] Gnome 3 activities screen -- Found the Culprit

[Jerry Feldman]

On 03/04/2013 04:20 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 03/03/2013 05:35 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> On 03/03/2013 04:22 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
>>> On 3/3/2013 11:28 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>>> On my gnome3 activities screen I have 2 icons that are dead.(eg. mouse
>>>> to top left, then click on all applications)
>>>> One icon is blank and the other specifices the application but does 
>>>> not
>>>> point anywhere. I'd like to be able to remove one of the icons and 
>>>> edit
>>>> the other. (I can probably fix the other one by placing a symlink in
>>>> /usr/bin).
>>>>
>>>> I did a some google searching, but nothing really solved the problem.
>>>>
>>> You can right click on them to bring up a context menu to remove them.
>>> Then in the full application list, you can right click to "add to
>>> favorites" to fix the other.
>> The context menu only has "New Window" and "Add to Favorites",
>> the favorites bar when you right click on an applicaiton only has 
>> "Remove from Favorites, New Windows, and a an additional entry or two 
>> if the application is running.
>> There is no way I have found to delete those icons, or to edit the 
>> icons to point them to the correct application, I've run the 
>> gnome-tweak tool, the gconf and dconf editors, but I was not able to 
>> fine where the icons can be removed. I added a "Remove Activities 
>> Button", but that removes the hot corner.  If I do a find -name using 
>> wildcards looling in /usr/share ~/.local.
>> The application itself installs in /opt, but at present I have to 
>> call it via the command line.
>>
>> This is not a big issue since everything works. I just don't know how 
>> to remove application icons from the desktop (all applications, not 
>> yhr favorites bar).
>>
>>
> As I suspected the culprit was in ~/.local/share/applications
> The file is called alacarte-made.desktop
> Actually, there are a couple of them.I don't know why they were in my 
> ~/.local/share/applications since I installed the product as root from 
> the .rpm file. Also, the dates on those files go back to Fedora 17 
> last November.
>
I think to use more accurate terminology the screen is called the 
"Activities Overview" screen. In Gnome 3.6 when you click the "All 
Activities" icon from the favorites, bar, all the application launchers 
will be visible. The icons are "application launchers". You can't just 
drop an application launcher in this screen like you could in Gnome2. 
You certainly can add any application to the favorites bar.

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