Saw this asked on IRC today, seemed like an easy one but apparently not very evident. The Gnome “start menu” if you will, in a default Solaris installation contains some quick launch links, whose right contextual menu doesn’t provide for a way of removing them.

Each of these contain a entry in their /usr/share/applications desktop file that looks like;

Categories=Application;Office;X-Sun-Quick-Start;X-Sun-Supported;

it’s the entry of X-Sun-Quick-Start that causes these applications to appear on the top level of the start menu structure, simply removing this entry from the categories line will stop them appearing.

Maybe an option to delete these from within the menu preferences would have been a nice idea in hindsight.