GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 622582
Gnome-shell fails to load from gnome menu
Last modified: 2010-06-24 22:10:38 UTC
There is an entry "gnome-shell" in the Applications -> Accessories. When you click on it, it does nothing. Steps to reproduce: 1. Click on Applications than Accessories 2. Click on Gnome-shell 3. Nothing happens What i expect to happen: I expect it to load gnome-shell or at least do something. What happens: after clicking on gnome-terminal nothing happens If you need more info i would be glad to get you the info you need. Here is system info gnomefreak@development:~$ policy gnome-shell gnome-shell: Installed: 2.31.2+git20100621.9af97909-0ubuntu1~10.10~ricotz1 Candidate: 2.31.2+git20100621.9af97909-0ubuntu1~10.10~ricotz1 Version table: *** 2.31.2+git20100621.9af97909-0ubuntu1~10.10~ricotz1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu/ maverick/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.28.1~git20091125-1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe Packages gnomefreak@development:~$ lsb_release -a && uname -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch) Release: 10.10 Codename: maverick Linux development 2.6.35-5-generic #6-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 21 21:33:48 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux gnomefreak@development:~$
GNOME Shell is not meant to be displayed in the menu, which is why the desktop file contains "NoDisplay=true". If it is displayed nonetheless, it is most likely a bug in gnome-menus, although I'm unable to reproduce with the current stable version. Trying not to do finger-pointing, but Debian/Ubuntu have their own peculiar way of dealing with menus/desktop files(*) - the patch they apply to gnome-menus alone exceeds 30,000 lines. Reassigning to gnome-menus to double-check, but this is most likely NOT_GNOME. (*) To be fair: If I recall correctly, their system predates the freedesktop standard by years
There's no bug here. Nothing happens because the Exec line probably doesn't have --replace. So, yeah, NOTGNOME since upstream gnome-shell hides this menu item.
I attempted to file the bug with Ubuntu on Launchpad it told me all bugs are dealt with using gnome bug tracker. I will see if i can get in touch with someone on our end.