On 07.02.2012 15:57, Brent S. Elmer wrote: > Package: gnome-shell > Version: 3.2.2.1-1 > Severity: normal > > My gnome3/gnome-shell experience has not been very good so far. I have > installed gnome-shell on several up to date wheezy computers. On all of them, > the Applications menu is unusable because it is so slow to show any icons. On > some of the systems, it takes several minutes to show anything when going to > the Activities and clicking on Applications. I have noticed that there are a > lot of duplicate icons and there are also a lot of icons for applications that > are not installed anymore. I don't know if all of this cruft is causing the > slowness or not. I can use the Main Menu application to clean some of this > up. > I have found that the duplicates and uninstalled items are all in the "Other" > menu. When I uncheck the item it does go away. I cannot delete the item line > though. I try to right click and select delete on the uninstalled items but > nothing happens. My wheezy install is clean in that I do not have any > orphaned > packages installed. Where is the Other menu item picking up all of this old > junk and is there a way to clear it out. I only install applications using > Synaptic or apt-get directly. An example of items showing up that are not > installed anymore is Emacs 22 which hasn't been installed for a long time. > Something is not being handled correctly with the menu items when gnome-shell > is being installed making the Activities->Applications method of selecting
Do you have outdated desktop files in /usr/local/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications/? Do you have the Debian menu enabled (which would explain the duplicate entries)? The default is off. Have a look at ~/.config/menus/ > applications to start unusable. Due to the unusability of the Applications > menu, I have gone to opening everything using Synapse which I actually like. > The typical user though probably will not do that and consider gnome-shell > unusable. Which it is if it takes several minutes to show the application > icons to start a program. What kind of hardware do you have (it takes at most 2-3 secs here when I initially open the Applications tab, subsequent it is almost instantaneous). I have to acknowledge know, that I rarely use the Application menu and got really used to the builtin search -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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