When trying to add entries to the Gnome Application menu, they don't get displayed. Also the menu does not display all previously added custom folders or launchers. When modifying an existing entry, it disappears from the menu. Moreover it is not possible to add new folder or subfolder to the menu via /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications-all-users.vfolder-info However all entries are present in the Applications:/// Nautilus location. Packages recnetly emerged or updated: net-misc/curl-7.12.3 dev-java/xml-commons-1.0_beta2 dev-java/xjavac-20041208 dev-java/xml-commons-resolver-1.1 dev-java/xerces-2.6.2-r2 dev-java/jdom-1.0_beta10-r1 dev-util/guile-1.6.6 dev-libs/glib-2.6.1 x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.14-r2 x11-libs/vte-0.11.11-r3 x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.1-r1 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
This is probably a notification issue, is fam or gamin running ?
famd is running. Numerous people are reporting the same issue: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=281690
try gamin with inotify enabled kernel. Anyway, there is not much point in working on this, since the menu system is being replaced.
and numerous == 4 ? Reality check needed.
ok, wrong choice of words. gamin however does not solve the problem.
Well i'm pretty sure it will solve it, applications:/// is the exact same thing as the panel menu and as such discrepancies can only be explained as being trough a lack of direct updates. Anyway, as said, I don't think it's wise to put effort in this as the current menu system will soon be replaced.
Yes, I am aware of that, but it'll be at least another 2 month or so till Gnome 2.6.10. And as I wrote before, gamin (and even restarting my machine) does not solve this.
Having the same problem over here. famd + inotify enabled kernel = broken gamin + inotify enabled kernel = broken I think the problem is some inconsistency between the creation process of the .desktop files and the parsing process. I can get the non-showing (yet existing under vfolders-applications) desktop files to show up by replacing their contents with a .desktop file that is being shown in the menu, and fixing parts (such as Name, Exec and Icon).
Gnome v. 2.8.1-r1 Only the default "Application" menu items show up and all the items that I edit just disappear. No custom menu items show up at all.
Hi, OK, I just hit this problem myself (on ~x86). Downgrading glib to 2.6.0 fixes it for me. I don't think it'll affect "just 4 users", it should affect anyone using gnome with glib-2.6.1. Cheers, James
I'll second finding the problem on ~x86 and resolving it by downgrading from glib 2.6.1 to 2.6.0. This really needs to be reopened, it was rather inappropriate to be marked RESOLVED/WORKSFORME.
that was _NOT_ the reason it got closed, see #6 . If you want to solve it : go ahead.
What about adding some notification to glib 2.6.1 ebuild telling that it breaks the GNOME menu? Also, I believe this bug should prevent glib >2.6.0 from becoming stable (if it ever will before GNOME 2.10).
those are workarounds, not fixes. And such minor problem won't influence glib stabilization afaic.
*** Bug 79675 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
far from being solved. having the same issue here cant edit the menus correctly. I dont beleive for a minute that people should mark a bug as resolved if it aint. Sorry but counting on future atm non existing packages to solve an issue like this is just not a solved issue. really .. this should be fixed , not dusted under the rug. my 2 cents
From looking at Ubuntu Hoary, you can't edit the menus in Gnome 2.10 (9) either.
There's a patch to fix this behaviour in the gnome bugzilla, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165799 Cheers, James
Created attachment 50059 [details, diff] Patch for gnome-panel for changes in glib-2.6.1
