add and remove programs needed and search

That would be the "Main Menu" app in "Preferences" you're looking for. :-)

Although I kind of agree it would be nice to have a simple quick-add and quick-remove - but they'd probably disappoint because at minimum an item has to have a command (eg: /usr/bin/blah), a name "Blah the Foo Bar" and an icon (which has to come from somewhere...)

Either way I'd say it's out of the scope of netbook remix - gnome generally could use it, and it really is just a shortcut to the add item functionality in the Main Menu editor. :-)

I think he means the "Add/Remove Programs" link that is on the bottom of the main-menu "Applications" menu. We should add a desktop file pointing to it into preferences/accessories.

The launcher will add Add/Remove (and anything else in the root menu) to the Accessories category. This isn't perfect, but the items-in-root-menu doesn't really fit into the launchers way of working and having those be dumped into Favourites would be annoying imo.