Alacarte (previously the Simple Menu Editor for GNOME or SMEG) is a menu editor for the GNOME desktop, written in Python. It has been part of GNOME since the 2.16 release.

Alacarte Menu Editor
Developer(s)Travis Watkins
Stable release
3.50.0 / September 23, 2023; 13 months ago (2023-09-23)
Repository
Operating systemLinux, Solaris, BSD, other Unix-like
TypeMenu Editor
LicenseLGPL
Websiteftp.gnome.org[1]

The menu "Places" is not available for editing. You can edit the places menu somewhat with this: $gedit ~/.gtk-bookmarks, or use gconf-editor (e.g. /system/storage/drives/_org_freedesktop_.../mount_options).

An alternative to Alacarte is MenuLibre.

References

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  1. ^ "Realist Anew » Hello Planet Ubuntu".[dead link]