GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 704219
Default Merge locations do not merge as XDG specification says they should.
Last modified: 2021-05-25 12:45:52 UTC
The freedesktop (XDG) specifies that a merged file should override the system configuration. That is a merged layout section should override the system layout. This does not happen because the default menu configuration file at /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu places the <DefaultMergeDirs/> line near the begining. It should rather be almost the last line. I would suggest it should be the line just before The very last </Menu> line. This has been tested and does work. Of all the DEs I have tested merges on, the only DE that works correctly is KDE which has <DefaultMergeDirs/> almost at the end of their config file. Most DEs seem to have followed the gnome example. This effects any merge file in /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged or ~.config/menus/ (such as alacarte creates)
duplicate of bug #557443?
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