On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Ron Yorston <rmy at tigress.co.uk> wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >>I've mostly been using MATE from epel when I use GUI access on CentOS7 >>because it works with x2go, but just noticed on a system with Gnome3 >>that I can't drag items out of the menus to the desktop or top bar for >>easier access. Is there some way to make the desktop space useful for >>more than pretty wallpaper? > > I'm not at my usual machines so I don't have access to CentOS 7 or > GNOME 3 at the moment. And even if did I tend not to bother with > stuff on the desktop so I couldn't help with that anyway. > > However, if it's menu items in the top bar you want I do have an app > for that, or rather a GNOME Shell extension. Visit > > https://extensions.gnome.org Sometimes I use the top bar but generally I just make a folder named apps on the desktop and drag anything used frequently from the menus into it. That approach used to work across windows/mac/gnome2/kde and made it possible to find things without traversing someone else's arcane menu layout. But now I guess gnome3 wants to be different. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com