Bug 97839 – gnome-menus: /etc/xdg/menus/preferences.menu should take legacy items from /usr/share/gnome/capplets/ and /usr/share/control-center-2.0/capplets (xscreensaver, gdmphotosetup, etc.)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ed Catmur 2005-07-03 10:26:58 UTC]

Currently the Gnome preferences menu does not display items from /usr/share/gnome/capplets/ and /usr/share/control-center-2.0/capplets.

In particular, this means that the items for xscreensaver, gdmphotosetup and gnome-pilot are omitted (among others).

This could be corrected by fixing the offending applications but it would probably be simpler to insert LegacyDir entries in /etc/xdg/menus/preferences.menu:

  <LegacyDir>/usr/share/control-center-2.0/capplets</LegacyDir>
  <LegacyDir>/usr/share/gnome/capplets</LegacyDir>

Using: gnome-menus-2.10.2, gdm-2.6.0.9-r3, xscreensaver-4.22-r2, etc.

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2005-07-22 13:55:02 UTC]

These entries already exists in my preferences.menu , same gnome-menus version.

[Comment 2 Dave Shanker 2005-07-26 20:29:09 UTC]

I'm running Xscreensaver 4.22-r2, gnome-2.10.1, and gnome-menu-2.10.1 and my
/etc/xdg/menus/preferences.menu does not contain entries to search
/usr/share/control-center-2.0/capplets and /usr/share/gnome/capplets. 

Looking at the config file, it looks as though the default location for these
files are /usr/share/applications now. Maybe we need to patch the makefile for
XScreensaver to install in this location until they fix it upstream?

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2005-08-01 03:54:15 UTC]

please, try with the latest gnome-menus in portage, that would be the place to
fix it. Anyway, I don't understand how you could have a different
preferences.menu than I got here with the same version of the package. Ed, could
you work that out ?

[Comment 4 Shyam Mani (RETIRED) 2005-08-05 23:31:19 UTC]

Same happens here. In fact, my xscreensaver icon went missing from 2.10.1 IIRC
from the Desktop -> Preferences menu.

[Comment 5 Brad Laue (RETIRED) 2005-08-07 00:27:43 UTC]

Confirmed here as well. Using gnome-menus-2.10.1, no indication of those
directories present in preferences.menu, and xscreensaver's icon is missing from
the appropriate location.

If the legacy dirs are in 2.10.2 can we rush that into some sort of stable keyword?

[Comment 6 Shyam Mani (RETIRED) 2005-08-07 01:42:04 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> If the legacy dirs are in 2.10.2 can we rush that into some sort of stable
keyword?

2.10.2 has the same issue as well. So we need to figure out what the issue is....

[Comment 7 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) 2005-08-07 06:33:11 UTC]

*** Bug 101601 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Jason Bucata 2005-08-07 09:54:13 UTC]

I added the two lines above to mine and it's fine now.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Anyway, I don't understand how you could have a different
> preferences.menu than I got here with the same version of the package.

I looked at the tarballs for 2.10.[12] and both had what I had installed
previously, missing those two lines.  I did a reemerge of 2.10.1 and etc-update
wanted to replace my fixed version with the old version.  Is it possible that
your config file handling is different somehow?

[Comment 9 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) 2005-08-08 22:22:51 UTC]

I've committed gnome-menus-2.10.2-r1, which includes a patch that adds the
entries listed on the original report. Personally, I don't think it should be
rushed into stable, so originally it'll stay in testing with the rest of the
GNOME 2.10.2 packages.

Thanks.