Re: [gnome-flashback] "Debian" menus

[Nathan Salwen <salwen 1 gmail com>]

Thank you for the quick response again!

I have a couple of pieces of information:

1.  Running alacarte directly from the command line is not the same as right-clicking on the gnome-menus icon (in the gnome-panel) and hitting Edit Menus.

1A. Command-line alacarte has no checkbox for Debian.  Under Applications I see Accessories, Education, Games, Graphics,...

1B. rightclick gnome-menus->Edit Menus has Accessories, Debian, Education, Games, Graphics,...

2.  Adding a test item under Accessories in alacarte does not cause it to show up anywhere that I can find in gnome-menu.

3.  Adding a test item under rightclick gnome-menus->Edit Menus->Debian->Applications->Editors causes all of those menus to show up when I left click gnome-menus.

These results are consistent with my previous report that I could get the Debian menu to show up by editing gnome-flashback-applications.menu.  The problem seems to be that the Debian menu is not populated by default.    However, the strange thing is that the Debian menus are fully populated when I run openbox.  I really appreciate your attention and do feel that solving this will increase the value of gnome-flashback.

Thanks,

Nathan

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:

Can you name some applications that should appear in Debian menu?

Open alacarte to edit menus. Make sure that Debian is checked. It seems that by default it is uncheked - so it will not be shown.

I tested it by creating test item under Debian category. First it showed under Other category, bet when I checked Debian it showed in menu with my test item.

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Nathan Salwen <salwen 1 gmail com> wrote:

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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