Missing entries in the gear menu on non-GNOME desktops

[Jonas Frei]

When launching as normal user, haguichi misses some entries in the gear menu, like e.g. "Preferences". The preferences are only accessible when starting the app with sudo privileges (see attached screenshots).

$ haguichi --version
Haguichi 1.3.1

[Stephen Brandt (ztefn)]

Hi Jonas,

Haguichi checks if the desktop environment prefers a separate appmenu [1]. If true, it sets the appmenu and doesn't show the entries in the gear menu. It's then up to the desktop environment to show the appmenu somewhere.

Apparently this is an issue with Budgie desktop [2][3][4].

As workaround you can access "Preferences" using the Ctrl+P keyboard shortcut.

[1] http://www.valadoc.org/#!api=gtk+-3.0/Gtk.Application.prefers_app_menu
[2] https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/issues/261
[3] https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/issues/281
[4] https://github.com/tiliado/nuvolaplayer/issues/193

[Stephen Brandt (ztefn)]

This problem seems to be fixed in recent budgie-desktop builds, well at least on Arch. I just received a new version (10.2.4-2) on my Manjaro Budgie VM and the menu entries showed up just fine. So I thought I'd give you a heads up.

[Stephen Brandt (ztefn)]

Noticed the missing menu entries on the recent elementaryOS 0.4 Beta too. I've now made sure the AppMenu is only ever set on GNOME [1], because the prefers_app_menu doesn't always seem to match with the desktop environment's actual capabilities.

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ztefn/haguichi/1.3/revision/105