I created e.g. an Rlogin menu by some subdirectories under /usr/share/gnome/apps/Rlogin/, root@impala:/root(32)# ll /usr/share/gnome/apps/Rlogin/ total 32 ... drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 users 4096 Feb 22 18:54 Homenet/ ... drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 users 4096 May 10 2003 Informatik_pdm/ ... In these subdirectories there are some desktop files: root@impala:/root(33)# ll /usr/share/gnome/apps/Rlogin/Homenet/ total 144 ... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1153 Feb 22 18:54 Beaglebone3_Homenet.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238 Jan 22 2011 Caiman.desktop ... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 242 Apr 11 2011 Impala.desktop ... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1103 Apr 19 12:42 Lynx_Homenet.desktop ... Until gnome-3.6 together with a modified /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu or a modified /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu I got main menu entry Rlogin with submenue entries Homenet, Informatik_pdm etc. In the submenue Homenet I then got then the menu entries for Caiman, Impala, Lynx etc. With gnome-3.8 the submenus Homenet, Informatik_pdm entries disappeared, I then got all entries Caiman, Impala, Lynx etc direct under Rlogin which was already not very convenient. But now with the upgrade to to gnome-3.12 I have only an empty Rlogin entry. Is there any hint how can I get again my home made applications menus with gnome-3.12? PS. In /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu I had: <LegacyDir>/usr/share/gnome/apps</LegacyDir> ... <Menu> <Name> Login </Name> <MergeFile>rlogin.menu</MergeFile> </Menu> ... And then there was a rlogin.menu file in /etc/xdg/menus/: <!-- Rlogin --> <Menu> <Name>Rlogin</Name> <DirectoryDir>/usr/share/gnome/apps/Rlogin</DirectoryDir> <Directory>Rlogin.directory</Directory> <Menu> <LegacyDir>/usr/share/gnome/apps/Rlogin/Bioinf_pdm</LegacyDir> <Name>Bioinf_pdm</Name> <Directory>.directory</Directory> <Include> <And> <Category>Login</Category> <Category>Bioinf_pdm</Category> </And> </Include> </Menu> ... <Menu> <LegacyDir>/usr/share/gnome/apps/Rlogin/Homenet</LegacyDir> <Name>Homenet</Name> <Directory>.directory</Directory> <Include> <And> <Category>Login</Category> <Category>Homenet</Category> </And> </Include> </Menu> ...
Please report this to upstream -> bugzilla.gnome.org, maybe they will know better how to handle this to not get the behavior changing on every bump. Also please post the link here to let us follow the issue
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #1) > Please report this to upstream -> bugzilla.gnome.org, maybe they will know > better how to handle this to not get the behavior changing on every bump. > Also please post the link here to let us follow the issue After moving the directory Rlogin/ from /usr/share/gnome/apps/ to /usr/share/applications/ my menues appeared again. So only the issue with the missing submenues remains. I filed also a bug at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731528
Will follow there then. I thought that all moved to /usr/share/applications time ago, maybe the support for older locations were dropped at some point (I remember Mandrake used them when they had their own menus but, later, they dropped that)
