You have been subscribed to a public bug: In Ubuntu 8.04, I found it impossible to build a deb package overriding the Applications menus. The attached (incomplete) package adds Game Categories (sub)Menus where games declaring to belong to these categories will be included (welcome by those who list 200 games!!!). This works. What is supposed to but doesn't work is disabling in the Games (main) Menu the applications that migrate to a Category.
The Freedesktop.org menu-spec specification says this : http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ar01s05.html > Merged menu elements are kept in order because <Include> and <Exclude> elements later in the file override <Include> and <Exclude> elements earlier in the file. This means that if the user's menu file merges the system menu file, the user can always override what the system menu specifies by placing elements after the <MergeFile> that incorporates the system file. Ubuntu's menu merging goes like this: /home/p/.config/menus/applications.menu: <Menu> <Name>Applications</Name> <MergeFile type="parent">/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu</MergeFile> [end] /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu: <Menu> <Name>Applications</Name> <Directory>Applications.directory</Directory> <!-- Scan legacy dirs first, as later items take priority --> <LegacyDir>/etc/X11/applnk</LegacyDir> <LegacyDir>/usr/share/gnome/apps</LegacyDir> <LegacyDir>/usr/share/control-center-2.0/capplets</LegacyDir> <!-- Read standard .directory and .desktop file locations --> <DefaultAppDirs/> <DefaultDirectoryDirs/> <!-- Read in overrides and child menus from applications-merged/ --> <DefaultMergeDirs/> Now defining the menus ... <Menu> <Name>Accessories</Name> ... Hence, contrary to what the specification and the above file itself say ("Read in overrides..."), the said overrides can't override much of anything of a menu : empty or nonexistent legacy directories and non menu directories. I have been able to do what I wanted only by updating an applications.menu file, which is not what I'm allowed to do, even less a general user, let alone a distribution package. In fact, according to what is specified and said, the <DefaultMergeDirs/> should be at the end of the file and if so my attached deb package would work wonderfully without any risk of impacting anything (who would code something annihilated by the following standard system statements). ** Affects: gnome-menus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- impossible to override Application menus https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/297431 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-menus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
