Applications menu is not XDG compliant and will not show at all when many standard xdg menu elements are used.

[Len Ovens]

The stock /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-appliactions.menu file shows the <DefaultMergeDirs/> near the top of the file. This should be acording to http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ar01s04.html merged after everything in the main <menu> section. The only way to get this to work is to have this line directly above the </menu> at the end of the file.

The <Exclude> element does not work.
The <Deleted> element does not work and causes the menu file that includes it not to be read in.
The <OnlyUnallocated>, same as <Deleted>

These things break any application that uses merge directories so the user can edit the application menu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: lxpanel 0.5.12-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.13-lowlatency 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-lowlatency i686
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Config_Home_Lubuntu:
 [Command]
 FileManager=pcmanfm %s
 Terminal=lxterminal -e
 Logout=lubuntu-logout
Date: Thu Jun 13 16:04:31 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-04 (9 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha i386 (20130603)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: lxpanel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

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[Expired for lxpanel (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]