gnome-calculator does not show application menu anywhere

[Matthias Andree]

gnome-calculator no longer offers, as of 14.04, an application menu. It used to be there before the upgrade, in 12.04. So switching between scientific and engineering now requires me to use dconf-editor.

Note that I did check hovering menu line, application title bar, and thereabouts, to no avail.

This application is now useless...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-calculator 1:3.10.2-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sat Sep 6 01:12:00 2014
SourcePackage: gnome-calculator
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-08-29 (7 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The menubar works fine under Unity here, what desktop environment do you use?

[Matthias Andree (matthias-andree)]

I tried gnome-flashback (metacity) and KDE/Plasma (from kubuntu-desktop full install).

[Pere (pere-pala)]

Same here. I have no menu in the calculator. This makes the tool useless.

 There is also no menu in evince and in nautilus. But in these cases, there is at least the gear button which shows a limited subset of options (i.e. not completely useless). Are these issues related?

[Pere (pere-pala)]

UPDATE: The problem seems to come from upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04. In 12.04 I did NOT want the global menu enabled. To disable this, I had to remove indicator-appmenu package (together with appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-qt). Now, in 14.04 I was also unable to enable the global menu through system_settings/appearance/behavior

(Re)Installing these packages solved the issue. Why these menus did not appear on the local windows is still an open question...

[Filofel (filofel)]

Same problem here, running 14.04 with flashback-metacity.
When needed, as a workaround, I'm changing gnome-calculator config using dconf as indicated below, but I certainly would not consider this convenient.

$ dconf write /org/gnome/calculator/button-mode "'basic'"; gnome-calculator
$ dconf write /org/gnome/calculator/button-mode "'advanced'"; gnome-calculator
$ dconf write /org/gnome/calculator/button-mode "'programming'"; gnome-calculator
$ dconf write /org/gnome/calculator/button-mode "'financial'"; gnome-calculator

[Jason Curl (jcurl)]

Using Unity on Ubuntu 16.04 freshly installed:

jcurl@leon-ubuntu:~/Programming/SerialPortStream/dll/serialunix/build$ gnome-calculator -v
gnome-calculator 3.18.3

The "dconf" tool is a workaround, but I cannot enable the menu by default. Not sure why it's "low", it's a problem for a long time (reported in other forums since 13.04). It would sure be nice to have something to make it easy to move from windows ;)