Also, on package gnome-menus we have gnome-menus-blacklist utility that
hide these icons listed on /etc/gnome/menus.blacklist. Unfortunatelly it
is commented on post installation script.

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Title:
  xterm icon available by default

Status in Ayatana Design:
  New
Status in “xterm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The Ubuntu 11.10 desktop by default has three terminals in the Dash
  labeled respectively as: Terminal, XTerm, and UXTerm. This is rather
  confusing for users who are told to just run a terminal. XTerm and
  UXTerm share a rather old, outdated icon and very few users will
  prefer using them to using the standard, full-featured GNOME Terminal.

  XTerm apparently is used by Ubuntu's failsafe mode and so must be
  present by default.

  My Proposed fix:
  1.Add NoDisplay=true to the end of these 2 files:
    sudoedit /usr/share/applications/debian-xterm.desktop
    sudoedit /usr/share/applications/debian-xterm.desktop
  2. Run sudo update-desktop-database
  3. Log out and log back in.
  4. Type "term" into the Dash, xterm and uxterm should not show.
  5. Close the dash and type Alt+F2, now type "xterm" and "uxterm". The app 
shows with its icon. When run, the icon will show in the launcher and the 
Alt-Tab switcher.

  This should be a good compromise between most users who don't need the
  clutter of the extra terminals and the ones who actually do want to
  run xterm. Also xterm has been hidden by default for many releases now
  and I personally consider their presence now a UI regression, not an
  improvement.

  --Jeremy Bicha

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