GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 336747
merged in .menu files are not merged in
Last modified: 2006-03-31 18:38:39 UTC
Please describe the problem: Per the menu spec I should be able to add .menu files to $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/menus/applications-merged/ and have them get merged into the main applications menu on the desktop. However, I am not able to get this to function using 2.12 and 2.14. In Fedora Core 5 the applications.menu file makes a comment about merging in menus from "applications.d" I was not able to figure out where that directory (and .menu file) was supposed to be to make things work. I've tried /etc/xdg/menus/applications.d and /etc/applications.d The applications-merged directory does work in RHEL4, however, I think that's still using the vfs menus. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create, if it doesn't exist /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged 2. In that directory add a .menu file to be merged into the main applications menu 3. Restart gnome, note that no changes have been made to the Applications menu Actual results: No changes at all are made to the applications menu. Expected results: The .menu file should be propperly merged into the menu structure as instructed by the "<DefaultMergeDirs/>" XML code. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: I will attach the .menu file I am trying to use.
Created attachment 62463 [details] XML menu file This is the .menu file I am attempting to merge in
Your .menu file should begin with: <Menu> <Name>Applications</name> ... Each <Menu> should have a <Name> - sounds like RHEL4 didn't enforce that