Upon applying profile, entire Application menu unavailable

[David Groos]

Hi,

I'm trying menueditor and not getting expected results. With Menueditor I open "Applications" and un-check 'games' and save it as TestMenu.

Then I open profilemanager, import the profile, and assign a group to TestMenu and save it.

Then I log in as a user of the group assigned to that profile. When I click on "Application" menu instead of seeing the dropdown--without games--I see nothing, the menu won't drop down. The Places and System menu work as expected.

I thought I might have unchecked the whole Application menu and checked that out but it was still checked. The only thing unchecked was "games" submenu.

David

[Marc Gariépy (mgariepy)]

Hello David,

can you please attach you .tar.gz file of your menu.
Also, which version of ubuntu and menueditor are you using ?

Thanks

Marc.

[David Groos (djgroos)]

Hi Marc,
I made a new menu profile, TestMenu to test again and while I still couldn't get it to work, the issue was slightly different this time. The menu items in Accessories I disabled were gone but the rest of Accessories worked as expected.

However, I had disabled the entire 'Games' menu and it worked as if I hadn't disabled it.

Not sure if this is important, but when I go to upload a tar.gz profile and the dialog box opens to locate the tar.gz file and I go to enclosing folder of the profile, the file doesn't show up until I select "All" files and not just the "Archive" files. I would expect that it should have shown up as an archive.

Thanks for responding so quickly!
David

[Marc Gariépy (mgariepy)]

I tested your archive and it doesn't work, the files seem all right tho.

I will probably take a deeper look next week.

Just to be sure, you are using it on maverick ?

Thanks

[David Groos (djgroos)]

Um... I'd like to be Lucid about this, I'm not a Maverick...

I'm using it on LTS 10.04.1 on an LTSP 5.2 client.

Is it not for Lucid?

Thanks,
David

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Marc Gariépy <email address hidden>wrote:

> I tested your archive and it doesn't work, the files seem all right tho.
>
> I will probably take a deeper look next week.
>
> Just to be sure, you are using it on maverick ?
>
> Thanks
>
> ** Changed in: menueditor
> Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
>
> ** Changed in: menueditor
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
> --
> Upon applying profile, entire Application menu unavailable
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663994
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Edubuntu menu editor: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying menueditor and not getting expected results. With Menueditor I
> open "Applications" and un-check 'games' and save it as TestMenu.
>
> Then I open profilemanager, import the profile, and assign a group to
> TestMenu and save it.
>
> Then I log in as a user of the group assigned to that profile. When I
> click on "Application" menu instead of seeing the dropdown--without games--I
> see nothing, the menu won't drop down. The Places and System menu work as
> expected.
>
> I thought I might have unchecked the whole Application menu and checked
> that out but it was still checked. The only thing unchecked was "games"
> submenu.
>
> David
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/menueditor/+bug/663994/+subscribe
>

[Marc Gariépy (mgariepy)]

After some research, the bug is in gnome-menu.

[David Groos (djgroos)]

Hi Marc, can you explain what this new info means for my use of menu-
editor? Should I change a version or something? Is there some kind
of a work around? I'm guessing others have gotten it to work.
Thanks,
David

On Nov 10, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Marc Gariépy wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 413728 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/413728
>
> After some research, the bug is in gnome-menu.
>
>
> ** Changed in: menueditor
> Status: Confirmed => Invalid
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 413728
> alacarte does not remove main menu item
> * You can subscribe to bug 413728 by following this link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-menus/+bug/413728/+subscribe
>
> --
> Upon applying profile, entire Application menu unavailable
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663994
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Edubuntu menu editor: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying menueditor and not getting expected results. With
> Menueditor I open "Applications" and un-check 'games' and save it as
> TestMenu.
>
> Then I open profilemanager, import the profile, and assign a group
> to TestMenu and save it.
>
> Then I log in as a user of the group assigned to that profile. When
> I click on "Application" menu instead of seeing the dropdown--
> without games--I see nothing, the menu won't drop down. The Places
> and System menu work as expected.
>
> I thought I might have unchecked the whole Application menu and
> checked that out but it was still checked. The only thing unchecked
> was "games" submenu.
>
> David
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/menueditor/+bug/663994/+subscribe

[Marc Gariépy (mgariepy)]

Hello David,

I just uploaded a backport version of edubuntu-menueditor in
https://launchpad.net/~menueditor-devel/+archive/backports

The package should be available for lucid soon. it contain a few fixes.

To work around the games menu problem, you can open the file /etc/edubuntu-menueditor/<menu name>/xdg/menus/applications.menu and under the <Name>Games</Name> simply add <Deleted/>. This way the games menu will be deleted.

This is what it should look like.
<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/menu-1.0.dtd">
<Menu>
  <Name>Applications</Name>
  <MergeFile type="parent">/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu</MergeFile>
  <Menu>
    <Name>Games</Name>
    <Deleted/>
    <Exclude>
      <Filename>sol.desktop</Filename>
    </Exclude>
  </Menu>
</Menu>