Mate menus

[Colin Law]

On 15 July 2012 22:18, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 07/15/2012 03:33 PM, Colin Law wrote:
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>> On 15 July 2012 13:53, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> On 07/15/2012 04:11 AM, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
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>>>> On 15.07.2012 11:52, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
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>>>>> On 15.07.2012 01:28, Jim Byrnes wrote:
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>>>>>>> I wonder if there is any guide that lets you determine which
>>>>>>> belong to Unity and which to Mate?  I would like to remove the
>>>>>>> Unity ones and keep the Mate ones.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the idea :)
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>>>> http://mkaysi.github.com/articles/guides/GnomeToMATE.html
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>>>> Mika Suomalainen
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>>> Thanks for the link but I'm not looking to remove functional equivalents.
>>> I
>>> am talking about duplicate menu entries.  I think maybe I confused the
>>> issue
>>> when I spoke of "Unity ones and Mate ones" in my original message. I
>>> don't
>>> have my laptop booted up now but there are at least a dozen cases of menu
>>> entries with the same name.
>>
>>
>> I don't know Mate, but is there not a way of removing (and adding)
>> items from the menus?  Also you might be better in a mate forum/list
>> (google for mate forum).
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> Yes you can add and remove from Mate menus but with all these duplicates I
> want to know which ones I should remove.  I assume that some of them are
> added by Mate and some must be picked up from Unity somehow. For example as
> I mentioned in my original post there are two entries for Baobab each
> pointing to a different version.

So it is not the menu entries that worry you (as per the subject of
this thread) but the fact that you have multiple versions of some apps
installed.  Can't help there I am afraid.  That sounds like definitely
a Mate issue rather than a Ubuntu one.

Colin