Newer versions of the menu spec: http://specs.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/menu-spec added some new extensions: 1) Support for describing how the menu should be laid out using the <DefaultLayout> and <Layout> tags 2) Support for merging in a parent .menu file by adding a "type" attribute to the <MergeFile> tag Problem is that our implementation validates the .menu file using our notion of the DTD at the time of release rather than using the DTD specified by the .menu file. Essentially, this means that if a user shares her home directory between RHEL4 and later releases like FC4/RHEL5 and a menu editor generates a .menu file which uses these extensions, then her menus will no longer work at all on RHEL4.
Created attachment 112247 [details] patch to fix the bug
Fix is in gnome-vfs-2.8.2-8.3, errata is RHBA-2005:338
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