Re: The popup menuitem ordering bug for extensions

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 17:25 -0500, Adam Plumb wrote:
> The expected behavior is that if some items don't appear they should
> show up like: item0 item2 item4 (1 and 3 are missing).  Unfortunately,
> what does happen is sometimes we get item2 item4 item0 or item4 item2
> item0.  It is completely random and unpredictable.
> 
> So I've been looking in the nautilus source code, in the
> src/file-manager/fm-directory-view.c file specifically, trying to
> figure out where in the stack the menu is losing its ordering.  I
> found the real_update_menus function, and in turn found the
> reset_extension_actions_menu function, and when I print out the
> generated menu items, they show up in the correct order.  So I know it
> is something happening later than that.  But I'm at a loss as to where
> to look next or how to debug this.

Yeah, this is a gtk+ issue apparently, I debugged it and filed a bug at:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603128

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