User's menus are always kept unchanged

[Aron Xu]

I am running Lucid, and only the first user's menu can change when I am installing/removing software, but other user's menus in the system are always kept unchanged like the state after installation. If you need any extra information, please let me know.

My system is x86_64 with 2.6.32-12-generic default kernel from the archive.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Reassigning this to the gnome-applets package since that's where the main menu resides.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Aron Xu (happyaron)]

Yes, it is reproducible which I've done three times of lucid
installation and every time this happens, but I am not sure what
changes I did caused such a problem. What should I do to make the
problem more clear? Need I do a new installation and take down
everything I've changed?

Thanks,
Aron

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what did you install and how?

[Aron Xu (happyaron)]

Here is my package list generated by `dpkg -l' here. apart from installing/removing packages, I just changed some settings in xorg.conf for my nvidia graphic card.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not a gnome-applets bug there

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what happens every time your bug description is not clear, could you describe what you do, what you would want to happen and what you get?

[Aron Xu (happyaron)]

Okay, now I am trying to make it clear.

I just install Lucid with daily-live cd and everything works at that time, then install/remove software to fit my own requirement, I don't know how many software I've installed/removed, but the final package list in my system is attached before. Then I switch to another user's account, the menu aren't changed at all, that is to say even I've removed an application, its menu item is still there, or I've installed some new applications, their menu items aren't appeared after installation. The menu in other user's account (I mean except the orignal one that can use sudo) is freezed to be like the very initial status that the system has been installed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is a locale .utf8 against .UTF-8 one, assigning to pitti who will fix that one

[David Planella (dpm)]

Just a note to add that this affects translated desktop entries as well. After a quick chat with seb128 and pitti on #ubuntu-desktop, I'm adding the comment here:

* There was a bug in glib that prevented X-GNOME-FullName translations to be loaded in desktop entries
* The bug was fixed during the Lucid Platform sprint
* On Lucid upgrades or installations done prior to the fix, the following needs to be run, otherwise translations are not loaded for the desktop entries using X-GNOME-FullName:
  sudo rm /usr/share/applications/desktop*cache
  gnome-panel --replace
* Apparently the cache does not have the translated value there for X-GNOME-FullName

I'm also adding an ubuntu-translations task to keep an eye on it in case translators or users with a non-English US desktop have questions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-menus - 2.29.91-0ubuntu2

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gnome-menus (2.29.91-0ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/python-gmenu.postinst, 22_desktop-cache.patch: Canonicalize
    ".UTF-8" locales to ".utf8" when building/reading the cache. (LP: #517616)
  * debian/python-gmenu.postinst: Remove old caches for other locales.
  * debian/update-gnome-menus-cache: Translate X-GNOME-Fullname. (Side issue
    in LP #517616)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:55:07 +0100