Despite having usually a very clearly laid out and intuitive UI, this time GNOME was very odd…

I had added a network connection via the “Places” menu. That was very easy (except it didn’t connect when I pressed connect, but just created a new connection). But that connection has been sitting in my menu since then, and in the “Computer” view of nautilus, too. So I wondered how to get rid of it.

After trying around a bit, and even looking in the .gnome folder, I gave up and asked on IRC for help. Getting rid of them is actually quite easy - just open the “Computer” view in nautilus and “unmount” them (even if you never actually used this “network bookmark”)

This is something the GNOME UI people really have to redo. You can’t rename them for some reason, you can copy but not paste them, and to delete them you have to unmount them? WTF? Oh, and they don’t appear in the “Network servers” view, but are local to your computer?