ClassicMenu indicator doesn't show application menus

[grindz]

OS: Ubuntu 13.10 64
Indicator version: 0.07, 0.08
When running it shows system menus only. No one of application menus is showing.

Some investigation shows that a line in cmindicator.py
tree = self.create_tree('applications.menu') cannot read menus and build menu tree.

For some reason there is no applications.menu file in /etc/xdg/menus. Or generally , according to specs (Desktop Menu Specification) in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/menus/, where $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is /etc/xdg on my system.

This directory contains many menu files but there is no applications.menu

locate applications.menu command shows that this file is in /usr/share/app-install/desktop/applications.menu and that's it.
This directory is not in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS so gmenu module cannot read it from there.

I have no idea is this a Ubuntu issue or indicator issue.

[Florian Diesch (diesch)]

Am Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:07:44 -0000
schrieb grindz <email address hidden>:

> Public bug reported:
>
> OS: Ubuntu 13.10 64
> Indicator version: 0.07, 0.08
> When running it shows system menus only. No one of application menus
> is showing.
>
> Some investigation shows that a line in cmindicator.py
> tree = self.create_tree('applications.menu') cannot read menus and
> build menu tree.
>
> For some reason there is no applications.menu file in /etc/xdg/menus.

Thanks. ClassicMenu Indicator should use $XDG_MENU_PREFIX if set. I'll
fix that in the next version.

As a workaround install the package gnome-menus.

Creating a symlink
from /etc/xdg/menus/${XDG_MENU_PREFIX}applications.menu
to /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu should work, too.

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