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Bug 600614 - Gnome Panel menus are refreshed too rarely
Gnome Panel menus are refreshed too rarely
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: menu
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-03 22:16 UTC by Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek
Modified: 2010-06-01 09:52 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek 2009-11-03 22:16:27 UTC 
Installed applications does not always show in Gnome Panel menus after their installation. If I enter "edit menus", I can see buttons for those programs and they're active. If I click to the proper submenu of Applications, it's not there. I have to trigger 'killall gnome-panel' manually.

The same happens if I edit one of entries (e.g. changing 'gnome-terminal' to 'gnome-terminal --geometry=140x40') - the command is not updated at once, only after killing gnome-panel process.

I use 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). See also:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/473383
Comment 1 Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek 2009-11-21 16:10:16 UTC 
Still no attention? This bug is a *huge* obstacle in using menus conveniently - no one should be forced to kill menus manually (sic!) for them in order to just work...
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2010-01-14 01:00:58 UTC 
I can't reproduce this, unfortunately. Do you have a reliable way to reproduce it?
Comment 3 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2010-02-17 18:47:26 UTC 
Michal how can we reproduce this?
Comment 4 Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek 2010-02-24 22:27:05 UTC 
The easiest way is:
1) run alacarte
2) go to Applications->Accessories->Terminal, properties
3) change 'gnome-terminal' to 'gnome-terminal --geometry=140x40'
4) close alacarte
5) run gnome-terminal using Applications->Accessories->Terminal

Result:
runs in the previous resolution

Expected result (and the actual result if You invoke 'killall gnome-panel' before running terminal):
it should run with 140 cells wide and 40 cells high.
Comment 5 Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek 2010-03-28 20:53:20 UTC 
Any improvement? Ubuntu Lucid beta 1 suffers from exactly the same issue, this is really getting old and it's very annoying...
Comment 6 Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek 2010-03-28 20:54:09 UTC 
If You want any concrete info, just ask. I don't know why this is still marked NEEDINFO...
Comment 7 Vincent Untz 2010-03-29 11:34:52 UTC 
Note that Ubuntu now patches gnome-menus, so it's hard to know if this is Ubuntu-only or not.
Comment 8 Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek 2010-03-29 12:02:39 UTC 
Maybe somebody with unpatched gnome-panel could check this one... I provided simple steps to reproduce.
Comment 9 Tobias Mueller 2010-05-31 10:43:54 UTC 
Works for me on Ubuntu 9.10 with some packages from 10.04 mixed in. Sorry, I can't reproduce at all. Closing as NOTABUG for now. I might be good to file a bug against ubuntu first to check...
Comment 10 Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek 2010-06-01 09:52:53 UTC 
I can't reproduce it in 10.04 for now; maybe it's gone?