Please describe the problem:
Hi

This bug was originally reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/slab/+bug/84414/ and here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devel-list/2007-January/msg00012.html

"It appears that gnome-main-menu checks to see if beagle is running before showing the search field. This means that although you can have it use tracker-search-tool via gconf-editor, there is no search command available unless you have beagle running! This, of course, makes no sense and makes it really hard to use tracker with gnome-main-menu. Either there should be an additional check for tracker, or there needs to be a search tool independent way of looking for such things via dbus or something."

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install gnome-main-menu
2. Unisntall beagle (if it was installed)
3. No search item


Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
There's a patch (which seems to be a quick fix) in the above reports. Given the popularity of this new applet I think it should drop it's hard dependencies on beagle. It seems that other distros aren't adopting beagle so this hardcode dependency on it is a inconvenience for it's users. Given than the main menu could always launch gnome's non indexed search I think checking for beagle is unnecesary, so maybe the patch is not that bad.

thanks