Menus in gnome-session-flashback are bloated in Trusty
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Panel |
Fix Released
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Low
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Beginning with Saucy I assume that gnome-session-
To explain in greater detail, the sub-menu "Other" was added beginning with Quantal to display shopping lenses and later to also display web-apps which is arguably fine. I personally have no problem with that.
But in Saucy it appears an effort was made to copy the appearance of the GNOME Classic "Applications Menu" extension. In so doing the following sub-menus were added to 'gnome-panel':
(1) System Settings tree view added, but certainly not needed since System Settings also appears in System Tools as well as under the username.
(2) Sundry added, but sparsely populated. Orca Screen Reader moved to Sundry from Universal Access, but Onboard is still in Universal Access (being legally blind myself I refer to such changes as rearranging the furniture while I'm not home). Main Menu was also moved from System Tools > Preferences to Sundry which makes it a bit more difficult to eliminate Sundry if one so wishes.
(3) Utilities added, but also not really needed as all it accomplishes is relocating a large number of apps from Accessories and System Tools to a new location. Again just rearranging furniture.
In summary I'd add that 'gnome-
Two potential fixes, one upstream and the other at the Ubuntu level, have already been proposed here:
https:/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-session-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-1-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Jan 10 04:29:21 2014
GsettingsChanges:
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-29 (72 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20131021.1)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Related branches
- Tim Lunn: Approve
- Ubuntu Desktop: Pending requested
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Diff: 380 lines (+360/-0)3 files modifieddebian/changelog (+8/-0)
debian/patches/fix-menus-in-gnome-flashback-session.patch (+351/-0)
debian/patches/series (+1/-0)
- Tim Lunn (community): Approve
- Ubuntu branches: Pending requested
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Diff: 169 lines (+63/-18)7 files modifieddebian/changelog (+7/-0)
debian/patches/01_menus_rename.patch (+50/-12)
gnome-panel/menu.c (+1/-1)
gnome-panel/panel-addto.c (+2/-2)
gnome-panel/panel-menu-bar.c (+1/-1)
gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c (+1/-1)
gnome-panel/panel-run-dialog.c (+1/-1)
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Wow, I couldn't have worded that much worse :^(
At the end instead of saying, "it really resulted in a bloated within the flashback menu", I should have said, "it really resulted in a bloated menu within the flashback session" :^)