Thanks for testing again. So I mark this as fixed.
In pre-beta 1 versions there were indeed various bugs in gnome-menus
which made desktop files not appear at all/immediately.
** Changed in: gnome-menus (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: Incomplete = Fix Released
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Installing package that contains
Hi Martin,
I've downloading and installed the Beta release, and after installing
the .deb file the menu item is created and located where I expected it
to be.
I do run updates on my machine every week (at least) so I do have
current updates, I guess that it is something unique to my machine - a
I just downloaded that .deb, and I immediately get a working menu entry
for it. After uninstalling it is removed again.
Can you please retry this on current lucid? (beta-1). I recently
uploaded some fixes for the application menu cache:
** Changed in: gnome-menus (Ubuntu Lucid)
Assignee: Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) = Martin Pitt
(pitti)
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Installing package that contains a .desktop file does not appear in the
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** Also affects: gnome-menus (Ubuntu Lucid)
Importance: Low
Status: New
** Changed in: gnome-menus (Ubuntu Lucid)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team)
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Installing package that contains a .desktop file does not appear in the
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thank you for your bug report, did the cache got updated after your
install? could you look if your entry was listed there? did it work when
restarting the session?
** Changed in: gnome-menus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Low
** Changed in: gnome-menus (Ubuntu)
Status: New =
Hi, yes when I install my package it updates the cache, and after
looking in the entry I see my game listed there with an entry that is
the same to the .desktop file that I installed.
After restarting my session, nothing new happens. My icon is still
missing from the menu - despite being in
how is named the cache file and what locale do you use?
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Cache file is named: desktop.en_GB.utf8.cache and as far as I know my
local is English (United Kingdom).
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do you get the menu item listed if you delete the cache?
** Changed in: gnome-menus (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = New
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Nope, after deleting desktop.en_GB.utf8.cache the menu item is still not
listed. I even restarted my computer after that and the menu item was
still not listed.
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could you add an example to the bug, it will make easier to debug it
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Sure, by example, do you mean the package I was trying to install?
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yes or a .desktop to install to trigger the issue (with maybe a binary
to create before so the .desktop entry doesn't seem broken by pointing
to a non install binary)
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Here is the package that I was installing.
Installing this package on Karmic results in a menu item being listed
under the Games tab in Applications.
Installing this package in Lucid (Alpha 3) results in a menu item being
listed under the Games tab in Applications.
Installing this package in
I was briefly able to replicate this in lucid with the .desktop files
shipped in the 'teg' and 'nethack' packages. The behaviour did not
change after invoking update-gnome-menus-cache. I moved teg.desktop,
and added a new teg.desktop including Version=1.0, and re-updated the
cache, with no
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