Hi All - I am a total newbie on this forum, and want to thatnk all the participants for thier posts. I am coming right in with a plea for help. I am an old Unix guy who naturally migrated to Linux - but didn't know anything re desktops etc. After running KDE for a year or so, I realized i was constantly having to skim over a *lot* of apps in the KDE start menu everytime i wanted to run something, so i thought to myself... I bet these clever folks have made this really easy. I started deleting t...