gedit 3.7 doesn't display application menu

[Adam Dingle]

Starting with version 3.7.3, gedit has an application menu with menu items such as New Window, Preferences, About and Quit. Unfortunately this menu does not display under Unity, which makes gedit nearly unusable. You can see this if you install gedit 3.7 on Raring from the GNOME 3 PPA (https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3), or build it yourself on Raring (you'll need components from the GNOME 3 PPA in order to do so).

Unity *does* display the application menu in other applications including Nautilus and Epiphany. Perhaps it's failing to display the menu in gedit because gedit has other top-level menus as well (unlike those other applications). Or perhaps there's a deeper explanation.

Also see some discussion (but no fix) at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=696425 .

[Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)]

This is an old bug in the appmenu indicator. gedit gives an appmenu via GMenu but also has oldschool GtkMenu menus for the menubar. Unity can't deal with both of these at the same time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.