Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 206775
gkrellm still does not show up in gnome desktop menu
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:43 EST
Description of problem: When gkrellm is installed, a menu icon is not displayed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gkrellm-2.2.9-8 from fc6t3. also present since fc5. How reproducible: yes. Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install gkrellm 2. look in applications and system menus for the gkrellm icon Actual results: absent Expected results: should be present under either application|system tools or system|administration Additional info: The package properly installs the png icon, and the gnome-gkrellm.desktop file to the correct directory, however, it does not appear in the menus. In trying to solve this I noticed the info: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/developers-guide/ch-menus.html , which says not to make multiple applications appear in the menu at the same level when the applications purpose are the same. It seems that the fact that there is two apps with the same function: Application;System;Monitor, then only the one is shown. For example changing the Categories in the .desktop file to be Applications;Office {for eg like dia}, succesfully makes the icon appear in the Office menu. If X-Red-Hat-Base is added, then the icon is shown in the system|administration menu. The attached patch does this.
Created attachment 136428 [details] patch to make gkrellm icon actually appear Since I'm not fully clear on fedora's current guidelines, this may not be the proper approach; it does however make the menu item appear.
Hmm, Yes that might work another option/hack would be to remove the "Monitor" part from the "Application;System;Monitor" list, then gkrellm would show up under applications->system tools, which IMHO is a better place (and is where gtop should be too, but thats a different story). What do you think about this?
Applications|System Tools would make most sense to me, and it is where it used to live. Also it seems that: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html - Additional Category| Description |Related Categories Monitor|Monitor application/applet that monitors some resource or activity|System , suggests gkrellm should be in the system and monitor category. gnome-system-monitor on the other hand lives under System|Administration But I guess there is still a further mapping regarding the X-Red-Hat-Base stuff.
2.2.9-9 should show up on a mirror near you soon, with this version gkrellm will show under the Applications|System menu.
Nice work Hans, with the new package as received from extras-devel, the icon does show up as described in comment 4 :)