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How can I delete a drawer?

Asked by Károly Kiripolszky

I have created a drawer named "Development" before I've realized I can create one for the "Programming" application group, so I did. But somehow the new "Programming" drawer came up empty and now I'd like to remove both of these drawers since they're useless and keep showing up in the dash. This is Ubuntu 12.10. Thanks!

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Best icb410 (ian-berke) said : 		#1

Hi,

Drawer Launchers are stored in ~/.local/share/applications/. You can just enter that in the location bar of nautilus (cntl+L) then select the launcher and delete like any other file. It should stop showing up in the Dash after that.

I'm sorry the drawers aren't working the way you'd like. Category drawer creation still needs some work which I hope to get to at some point. Right now the search function looks for desktop application launchers in /usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications and tries to match the search string with terms in the category field of the .desktop files. Standard categories are found at http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html and additional categories at http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apas02.html

If you have specific details about how you'd like the Category Drawer creation to function, please submit a bug report. In the future, I plan to have a Gnome Classic like menu drawer, but I'm working on other features first.

Best,
Ian

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Károly Kiripolszky (atomgomba) said : 		#2

Thanks icb410, that solved my question.

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Károly Kiripolszky (atomgomba) said : 		#3

Dear Ian,

thank you very much for the quick reply and the exhaustive answer!

Cheers,
Karcsi