GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 316100
there is an empty menu after the help menu
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:58:00 UTC
Please describe the problem: a little empty menu, looks like a spec of dirt you can see it expand when you click it too. Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
i cannot reproduce this with evolution-2.4.0.0.200509090712-0.snap.novell.11.1 on suse9.3, could you provide a screenshot? hmmm...
uhm, sorry. i CAN reproduce this. going to provide a screenshot.
Created attachment 52926 [details] screenshot there's a little dot at the right of the "help (hilfe") menu item. after clicking it, you can see a small empty menu popping up (it's above the "answer to all" button).
*** Bug 320590 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 321749 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 322566 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
ok. so this is NOT included in evolution 2.2.3. sigh...
i more and more thinking that this has nothing to do with /ui/evolution.xml, but with /shell/e-shell-window.c or sth like that (said by a non-hacker). :-/ also, in 2.5.2 this happens in every component, but NOT in the memo component. hmm.
ill look into this
Ubuntu bug about that: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20849
i compiled from cvs head today and it seems that this is gone. can anyone of you confirm this, please? thanks in advance.
this is also fixed in my 2.5.3 rpm snapshot dated today, don't ask me why. :-) closing.
This is not fixed for me in 2.5.4.
I can also see one between Message and Find (or whatever the items are in english). But the menu is not empty anymore: it contains "Publish Calendar Information". Probably a problem with a plugin.
Vincent's menu is caused by the "Calendar Publishing" plugin. The empty menu off the end of the help menu is caused by the "Exchange Operations" plugin.
The empty menu to the right of help is caused by the exchange operations plugin trying to add a placeholder to the "Tools" menu (which no longer exists) For example, in org-gnome-exchange-ab-subscription.xml <submenu name="Tools"> <placeholder name="ComponentPlaceholder"/> </submenu> Same story for the calendar publishing plugin, but it tries to add to a non-existent "Actions" menu in org-gnome-publish-calendar.xml: <menu> <placeholder name="ActionsPlaceholder"> <submenu name="Actions"> <menuitem verb="EPublishCalendarPublish" _label="_Publish Calendar Information" /> </submenu> </placeholder> </menu> The solution is probably to move these to use other menus that are (still) in Evolution. There is no obvious fit for which menu is best, though :(
ryan, you are great. Im wondering how to figure this out. I solved the Publish calendar menu item earlier and chen will be committing it. I was locked on this and this is great ryan. Thanks for your help on this. Btw, can you share, how you figured this out, using some tools/script ?
Publish calendar menu item is bug 325936
Committed fix for empty menu next to help. Thanks ryan Chen: Committ the free/busy empty menu patch
Fixed to head.