Re: [gnome-flashback] "Debian" menus

[Nathan Salwen <salwen 1 gmail com>]

Thank you so much for responding.  I checked the versons on gnome-panel and alacarte and they do match.

I have noticed a strange thing.  If I run openbox I can see all the Debian menus.  But when I choose gnome-flashback (metacity) none of the debian menus show up (as described above).  I was surprised by this since the problem did not seem to be in the menu system but rather in the fact that categories like <Category>X-Debian-Applications-Editors</Category> were empty. 

There must be something in openbox that populates those categories but not in gnome-flashback for me.

To be clear - when you do Add_to_Panel Menu_Bar and then click Applications and Accessories, Games, Graphics, Internet .. show up, are you able to get Debian to show up in that list as well?  If so, I would be happy follow instructions and do a clean install to replicate that. 

Thanks!

Nathan

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Lance <lbsolost yahoo com> wrote:

Hi Nathan,

I'm not sure if this is helpful at all or not, apologies if not.

I encountered something similar in Ubuntu/Edubuntu and filed a bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/1305348

Prior to it being fixed I could only edit the menus by running the command:

alacarte gnome-flashback-applications.menu

But it should be fixed in a fully updated Ubuntu 14.04 now.

'gnome-panel' should be version 1:3.8.0-1ubuntu11

'alacarte' should be version 3.10.0-1ubuntu2

Lance

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From: Nathan Salwen <salwen 1 gmail com>
To: gnome-flashback-list gnome org
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 8:20 PM
Subject: [gnome-flashback] "Debian" menus

I am not sure if this is the right place to post this. 

I updated to Ubuntu 14.04 and now when I click on my Applications menu (on the gnome-panel) I do not see the Debian entry in the top-level menu.  If I click Edit Menus I can see a checkbox for Debian between Accessories and Education but even if I click on it it does not show up in my menu.

So I tried to modify my gnom-flashback-applications.menu in /etc/xdg/menus and I could make the Debian menu show up if I fill in some non-entry fields such as

<Include>

  <Category>System</Category>

</Include>

Next I tried to see if I could create the Debian menu manually at this point by starting to copy the entries from debian-menu.menu into the same entry but these entries all have things like

<Category>X-Debian-Applications-Editors</Category>

which all seem to be empty categories and therefore, do result in the Debian menu showing.

I have menu and menu-xdg installed.  From my reading, menu is supposed to create Debian menus but I guess I am missing something.  My question is, why is the debian-menu.menu included if all the categories it refers to are empty and why is there a checkbox for the Debian menu if it is not possible to make it appear.  Perhaps I am missing something and I will be able to get it hooked up?

Please CC me on any replies.

Thanks,

Nathan

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