Hi, after upgrading gnome-2.0.1 with the latest masked 2.0.2 ebuilds I encountered problems with gnome-vfs-2.0.4 . The applications menu has nearly gone (except the "Desktop Preferences" section containing only "Accessibility" and "Advanced"). I've downgraded gnome-vfs to 2.0.2 again and now everything works fine. Perhaps it's something to do with the config file which needs updating when installing gnome-vfs-2.0.4. Just to let you know. :)
addition: this doesn't happen if I install gnome-2.0.2_pre1 without having gnome-2.0.1 already installed.
2.0.4-r1 fixed this