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Messing around with .desktop files and stuff is not really convienient.
;) It should be possible to edit entries in the launcher/dash from the
system settings or by right clicking them and getting a preferences
dialogue...

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Title:
  feature request: "add/delete icon/shortcut" function

Status in Ayatana Design:
  New
Status in Unity:
  Incomplete
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I don't know if this is the right place for a feature request for
  unity dock/launcher. If it isn't, please excuse me, i would appreciate
  it if you would direct me to the site/forum where i should ask my
  request..

  This is my request:

  Thus far i had troubles removing stray icons  (DEL doesn't do that,
  drag and drop to trashcan works sometimes, alacarte menu edit works a
  lot of times but not always) and the documentation of how to do just
  that is a bit hard to find.

  In the dock/launcher it is possible to add and remove icons/shortcuts.
  It would be very convenient if this would also be possible in the menu/lens (activated by the most upper icon in the launcher).....it may be also convenient to be able to lock/unlock this function to prevent accidental deletion of said icons/shortcuts.....all this could be done from a right mouse-button menu and/or a (ctrl/alt/shift/whatever) DEL keystroke
  (adding, of course, with INSERT keystroke or something like that)

  This single feature would  make the use of the difficult combination
  of  alacarte + drag 'n drop + .desktop-file editing obsolete and would
  make for a very customizable menu/lens

  I hope you can do something with this "proposal", sorry I can't offer
  you any code or patches....at the moment I do not know anything about
  the internals of unity.

  b.t.w. I love the way that unity is going....keep up the good work and
  thank you for your time reading this.

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