Re: applications not in gnome menu / vfolder status in gnome-panel

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Sylvain Pasche wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using gnome-panel 2.1.0 with garnome. My problem is that most of
> the installed gnome applications don't appear in the Gnome menu.
>
> The old .desktop files are imported well: all files under
> $prefix/share/gnome/apps/**.desktop appear in the menu.
>
> However, the new applications, such as eog, use the new vfolder policy
> for desktops files (from what I understood), and install these files
> in $prefix/share/applications/**.desktop
>
> The problem seems to be that gnome-panel (as of 2.1.0) does not seeks
> into $prefix/applications to display these .desktop files in the gnome
> menu. Thus, I can't launch eog from the gnome panel menu, for example.
>
> Has anybody a solution to this ? Does gnome-panel lack the feature of
> reading .desktop files in share/applications to add them into the
> menu. Or is it the application's fault, not to put the .desktop files
> in the right place ?
>  
If you installed over a an old gnome 2.0 install (one from before menu 
editing was fixed), it could be caused by some old files that should be 
removed.  Look in $(sysconfdir)/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders.  If there is 
both an applications.vfolder-info file and an 
applications.vfolder-info-default file, remove the 
applications.vfolder-info file.  You will want to do similar for 
preferences.vfolder-info.

That should get your menus to display correctly (assuming this was the 
problem ...)

James.

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