MGSE menu doesn't show submenus

[James E. LaBarre]

Applications such as Wine, Crossover Office and NoMachine will place the majority of their icons in Gnome sub-menus, not top-level menus. MGSE's menu plugin will only show top-level menus, therefore any applications you have installed through Wine/Crossover will not show, and none of the NoMachine (NX) will be available (under "Internet") either. If you look at the entries under the GnomeShell, everything is listed, although in one jumbled mass of icons. So I know the information is there for MGSE menu to work with (Mate desktop will work correctly, as Gnome2 did).

Mint 12,

$ dpkg -l | grep -i mgse

ii mgse-alttab 1.0.2 Gnome Shell Extension Alt Tab
ii mgse-bottompanel 1.0.3 Gnome Shell Extension Bottom Panel
ii mgse-mediaplayer 1.0.1 Gnome Shell Extension Media Player
ii mgse-menu 1.1.6 Gnome Shell Extension Menu
ii mgse-noa11y 1.0.1 Gnome Shell Extension No A11Y
ii mgse-notifications 1.0.1 Gnome Shell Extension Notifications
ii mgse-shutdownmenu 1.0.0 Gnome Shell Extension Shutdown Menu
ii mgse-smartoverview 1.0.1 Gnome Shell Extension Smart Overview
ii mgse-userthemes 1.0.1 Gnome Shell Extension User Themes
ii mgse-windowlist 1.0.8 Gnome Shell Extension Window List
ii mgse-xrandr 1.0.1 Gnome Shell Extension Monitor Status
ii mint-meta-mgse 2011.12.2 Set of default packages for Gnome Shell in Linux Mint

[Gwendal LE BIHAN (gwendal-lebihan-dev)]

The way MGSE works is actually the exact same as the main gnome-shell menu.
Applications that are in no category will appear in the "All applications" category at the top of the menu (including wine applications and NX).

You can also use the search box at the top of the menu to find those applications.

[James E. LaBarre (jamesl-bestweb)]

I disagree. If the MGSE menu is supposed to take on the functionality that the old Gnome2 menu performed, it *MUST* show all items in the menus. What good is it to have a menu that only shows a subset of the items available? The point is all the items are there, and should be avalable for selection. Searching for items? That's the sort of poor design that is chasing people away from Gnome3.

[Gwendal LE BIHAN (gwendal-lebihan-dev)]

The items are shown in the menu (in the "All applications" section).
I'm not saying this is ideal, nor that it shouldn't be improved, only that it isn't a bug (meaning that it works as it's been designed).

That's the reason why this is set as "Opinion". I'll still have a look at this and see how it's possible to place menu items in the correct categories.

[Gwendal LE BIHAN (gwendal-lebihan-dev)]

Can you confirm that the attached patch fixes this ?