forwarded 477746 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542069 thanks
Sam Morris wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 12:20 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> Sam Morris wrote: >>> It was particularly useful for: >>> >>> * finding out where in the menu a given application lives in my guise >>> as an end-user who just installed a new >>> application. >> I usually look at the menu for this, guessing where it will be :) > > This is not convenient. Sometimes a desktop entry will show up with the > correct icon, sometimes it will not. Sometimes the menu entry will be > named after the application installed, sometimes it will be a generic > name, and sometimes it will be something totally different. Sometimes it > will appear under Preferences, sometimes it will appear under > Adminstration and sometimes it will appear under Programs. > > 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. > >>> >>> * debugging .menu and .desktop files while developing a new application >>> or packaging one for Debian. >> For .desktop files there's desktop-file-validate in desktop-file-utils. I >> don't >> know if there's any other alternative for .menu files, but if there is I'd >> say >> we could leave without this. > > This tells me that my .desktop file is syntactically correct, but it > does not indicate where on the menu it appears! Alright, I've forwarded this upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542069, let's see what upstream thinks about bringing it back. Cheers, Emilio
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