Comment 4 for bug 1289801

Well here are my output for these commands (I am as well back to 0.08):

$ env | grep ^XDG
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=fb49b4421c10b976b6d943b200000009-1394574231.506541-940945990
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity

$ ls -l /etc/xdg/menus
total 68
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8208 Mar 27 2012 applications.menu
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 06:31 applications-merged
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4614 Sep 3 2013 cinnamon-applications.menu
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 3 2013 cinnamon-applications-merged -> applications-merged
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2964 Jan 7 2012 classicmenuindicatorsystem.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2827 Apr 16 2012 gnomecc.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10920 Sep 7 2012 kde4-applications.menu
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 20 2013 kde-applications-merged
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 279 Jul 27 2011 kde-information.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3984 Jul 30 2011 lxde-applications.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3891 Apr 12 2012 unity-lens-applications.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4293 May 3 2012 xfce-applications.menu