Bug 216261

Summary:	Impossible to create a submenu which absorbs entries from another menu + fix
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Component:	redhat-menus	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	chris.stone, tadej.j
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Fixed In Version:	6.7.8-2	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Hans de Goede 2006-11-18 08:14:47 UTC

I'm a Fedora Extras packager mainly active in packaging / maintaining games as
such I've got a very large list of games under my games menu. 

I've been trying to create a .menu file to drop in
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu which adds submenus to the game menu based on
the XxxxGame catagories listed under "Additional Category" here:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html

This works, but I also want them to no longer show up in the "main" games menu,
iow I only want .desktop entries which are not already under one of my submenu's
to show up under the Games menu, this unfortunately currently seems not possible.

I've tried 3 approaches.
1) Try to override the whole Games menu <Include> and extend it with a 
   <And><Not> for each "Additional Category" which I've put in its own submenu
   doesn't work.
2) Try to <Exclude> the "Additional Category" 's, doesn't work
3) Add a <OnlyUnallocated/> tag, this works, but now all the games which are
   not in one of the submenu's also show up in the Other menu :(

Although the behavour under 3 is strange, from some pov it may be desirable but
the behaviour under 1 and 2 is not desirable IMHO. I've done some googling and
it turns out that this is a parsing order problem. For 1) and/or 2) to work
applications-merged must be parsed at the end of applications.menu, I've checked
the other uses of applications-merged currently installed on my fairly complete
install and they are parsing order independend, iow they shouldn't suffer any
bad effects from moving the parsing of applications-merged to the end of
applications.menu

The original post I found on google on the parsing order issue is here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=139901

Surprisingly this guy has also tried the same 3 methods. Also there are other
fedora users who've tried this and failed too:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-March/msg01678.html

Last I'm not alone in wanting these submenus, we have had discussions about this
on the fedora-games-list, which mostly gets used by the Fedora Extras Games SIG
in the past. IOW please fix this :)

Comment 1 Rickey Moore 2006-11-19 00:43:14 UTC

Please see if this can be resolved as I wish to use this game for a project that
I am working on. Brotherly Love and World Peace could be a result! Ha! For real!
If I can shoe-horn glest into one of his $100 laptops, I've got 2.7 million
clients to put it in front of, just for starts, across the country and later the
world. No fooling! <grins hugely> 

Please try to put this one up in the que for wayward4now and his OAR project, as
a personal request from a former RedHatter. I worked at the RTP location in
1999-2000. Hopefully, Nicholas Negroponte will thank you one day as well, if I
can get a proof-of-concept running to show him. If you are in the RTP location
as well, I already have approvals from the NCDOC, and this could be an entry
point into the State IT structure as well as I am going to insist that as an
Open Source Project that it use a North Carolina Product as well. Governor Mike
will agree if it works. So, please do what you can to expedite this for the
Gentleman who is doing a good thing here. Thank you for any considerations, Ric

Comment 2 Hans de Goede 2006-11-19 07:02:14 UTC

Are you sure you wanted to post that as a comment to this bug???

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-11-20 16:09:39 UTC

So just to be sure, you've tried moving <DefaultMergeDirs/> to after the Other
menu bits and it

1) fixes your problem 
and
2) doesn't obviously break anything else?

Comment 4 Hans de Goede 2006-11-20 18:49:04 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> So just to be sure, you've tried moving <DefaultMergeDirs/> to after the Other
> menu bits and it
> 
> 1) fixes your problem 
> and
> 2) doesn't obviously break anything else?
> 
> 

Correct.

Comment 5 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-11-20 19:42:32 UTC

okay i've pushed an update to rawhide and FC-6 updates-testing that should be
showing up shortly.

can you verify that the fix i pushed works?

Comment 6 Hans de Goede 2006-11-22 22:06:49 UTC

I can confirm that the update in rawhide fixes this for me, thanks! Closing.