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Bug 542069 - Please bring back gnome-menu-spec-test
Please bring back gnome-menu-spec-test
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-menus
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.23.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-menus dummy account
gnome-menus dummy account
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-07-08 16:43 UTC by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Modified: 2008-12-01 14:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 2008-07-08 16:43:28 UTC 
I've seen in NEWS that gnome-menu-spec-test is not installed anymore:
        * Do not install gnome-menu-spec-test, it's useless for the user

Could you reconsider this, based on the following comments?

Thanks


From http://bugs.debian.org/477746

As an end-user I find gnome-menu-spec very useful for revealing where on
the menu a program is. As a system administrator I find it extremley
useful when debugging custom menu entries, custom menu categories, etc.
And also it's very useful when doing tech support over the phone to be
able to ssh into the machine the user is in front of, and run
gnome-menu-spec-test to find out where a menu item is--the variations
listed above, and more, make it almost impossible to find applications
on the menu sometimes.
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2008-11-27 02:44:17 UTC 
That's the only person I've heard of being unhappy of this change.

I'm willing to accept a python implemention of this utility to be shipped as an example of how the python bindings can be used. But I won't make gnome-menu-spec-test installable again, and the python implementation will be shipped in $datadir/gnome-menus/examples/. I guess that'll make everybody happy.

If someone wants to write this, it should only take ~15 minutes...
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2008-12-01 14:36:04 UTC 
There will be gnome-menus-ls.py in  $datadir/gnome-menus/examples/ starting in 2.25.