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Description of problem:

Has the behaviour of Appdirs changed in RHEL-7.2? Custom menu items only works if the .desktop files are placed under ~/.local/share/applications .Using <AppDir> in .menu file for specifying the desktop entries is not working properly. The item is only clickable but does not open the desired application

How reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) put the gnome-applications.menu file in ~/.config/menus
2) Place the custom .desktop files are placed under ~/.local/share/applications
3) it works with RHEL-7.1 but does not work with RHEL-7.2

Actual results: The menu item is just clickable and does not open the application

Expected results: The menu item should open the desired application

(In reply to jigar from comment #0)
> Has the behaviour of Appdirs changed in RHEL-7.2?

Yes, it is no longer used for the "main" application view (<super>a). As the apps menu reuses the underlying code for launching applications, this does affect the extension as well.


> Custom menu items only works if the .desktop files are placed under 
> ~/.local/share/applications

More precisely:
An "applications" directory in $XDG_DATA_HOME or any directory listed in $XDG_DATA_DIRS.


> .Using <AppDir> in .menu file for specifying the desktop entries is not
> working properly. The item is only clickable but does not open the desired
> application

We can make this work again in the apps-menu extension, however those apps:

 - will not show up as search results in the overview
 - be shown in the "main" application view
 - be recognized by the system to handle URL schemes
 - be listed as options for opening files from the file manager

So in general, including the custom directory in XDG_DATA_DIRS is much preferred over using the AppDir element in the .menu file.