Ever since the upgrade of Gnome to 2.2.6 I have had a problem with the Wine menus. Actually the Wine menus are gone and the individual icons for the windoze apps, such as Winamp, are now scatter under the menu "Others". One interesting bit, is that if I delete the $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu file, I get the correct Wine menu structure, but the moment I open the Menu Editor (alacarte), it creates a new $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu and the Wine menu structure disappears and the icons all end up in the "Others" category. As a workaround for the problem one can add either <DefaultMergeDirs/> or <MergeDir>applications-merged</MergeDir> to $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu Reproducible: Always $ env | grep XDG XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome- XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=f2e5b716bd3a6f38f25655ce499af7a6-1256743914.488389-1607980398 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/kde/3.5/share:/usr/share:/usr/share/gdm $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E6750_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="pt_PT.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="pt_PT pt en" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://mero.madeiratecnopolo.pt/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi ads alsa amd64 avahi berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gnome-print gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv id3tag ipv6 isdnlog ithreads java jpeg kerberos lame lcms ldap libnotify live logrotate mad matroska mikmod mmx modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musepac musepack nautilus ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session sip smp spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads thunar tiff truetype tta unicode usb vorbis wav wavpack wma wmf x264 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pt_PT pt en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This is fallout from the XDG_MENU_PREFIX stuff; similar to what's going on in bug 291279
This big is still around in gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.30.2-r1 (Arch ~x86, so I think this is architecture independent). I do not know if it is related to bug 291279 since comment 23 there states that the XDG_MENU_PREFIX fix for that bug is in gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.30.2-r1. If it is, that was not the entire problem. I was able to reproduce the OP's experiment of deleting $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu, with similar effects. Once that file is deleted, the Wine menu appears. When Alacarte runs, it recreates the file, and the Wine menu disappears. I don't know if this will be of any use, but here's the output of env | grep XDG: $ env | grep XDG XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome- XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=65a190a7dd8261bedef8a599486e07b3-1279207799.526409-617131219 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/usr/share/gdm I can supply more information if needed.
This is the same as bug 291279, but we need to find a way to properly patch gnome-panel without needing to hardcode menu locations :-/ *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 291279 ***
