Menus are hidden in gnome-shell

[Andrea Corbellini]

When using gnome-shell (that has no global menu), the menus are hidden and totally unreachable. The only solution I found is to remove appmenu-gtk, appmenu-gtk3 and appmenu-qt.

In my opinion, libappmenu should detect whether global menus are enabled (i.e. whether unity is active) and act consequently.

This is a big usability problem for people who want to give Gnome Shell a try (and probably other DEs too). I tried to "dpkg -l | grep globalmenu", but this gave no relevant results obviously. I had to use strace to detect that the problem was in appmenu-*, and this is something that the average user cannot do.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Weird. Shouldn't the menu come back when gnome-shell is being used? Can you install all updates and see if it fixes the issue?

[Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini)]

This issue has been fixed a long time ago. I have all appmenu packages installed and menus are correctly shown.
Sorry, I reported this bug a while ago and totally forgot about it.