> When applying any changes to the gnome applications menu via alacarte the file - applications.menu,

> in the directory /home/user-name/.config/menus is modified (by alacarte) but no change to the menu occurs.

> (for example showing or hiding a menu item). To make this work correctly alacarte needs to modify the file

> applications-gnome.menu  to allow items to change in the menu.  This requires a simple change to the file

> MenuEditor.py in the alacarte source code replacing the single occurance of applications.menu with

> applications-gnome.menu.

> The best way to do this is to download the source rpm and extract the archive then extract the alacarte source

> and modify the file and create the new archive to overwrite the old one then use rpmbuild to build a new alacarte

> rpm module and use yum to reinstall this module. Once done alacarte works ok.

> One more thing.

> I upgraded from Fedora 15 to Fedora 17 and am running Fedora on VmWorkstation in Windows.

> After  turning off the forced fallback mode and logging off and back in again gnome 3 works in the normal mode

> except for 3-D effects. Having got used to the fallback mode this is very different and my first real experience of the

> new gnome 3 shell. Overall Fedora 17 works fine in VmWorkstation apart from some problems with mouse operations.

> For example to resize windows I can only use the diagonals not the sides and when using software like the advanced tweak tool

> menu selections act a little like x-windows menu selections requiring one to press the return key to get the menu to stay.

> Anybody had similar problems?