Hide category and application icons within menu

Is it possible to to hide the category and application icons that are within the MATE classic menu?

Am I missing an obvious setting somewhere?

Right click on the menu button and select edit menus, then you can deselect the item(s) you want to hide.

Thanks for your reply but I would like to hide only the icons not the applications (or categories) themselves so that only the names (text) is displayed.