In Gnome menu Programs->Editors submenu is empty while various editors are scattered between Programs->Applications (like VIM) and Programs->Utilities (like Vi IMproved). In the past at least xemacs used to live in Programs->Editors but now even it lost its lease. One would expect editors find in "Editors". Populating /etc/X11/applink/Editors with at least links to editors in other directories would make this a bit less funny. BTW - the only difference between "VIM" and "Vi IMproved" seems to be that the later attempts to edit "%f" new file - which is obviously wrong. Michal michal
Did you perform an upgrade from a previous version? If so, which version? If you did upgrade, had you added anything in the Editors menu yourself? The reason for asking is that we used to have an Editors menu but we got rid of it. It should delete the menu item but it will not if you have added something to that menu.
This was indeed an upgrade of a test installation of RH 7; and no I did not add anything in "Editors" myself. Xemacs entry used to be there but it moved and Editors subdirectory stuck around empty. Trying to list with 'rpm -qf ...' an owner on any of subdirectories in /etc/X11/applnk comes consistently "not owned by any package" on ALL of these. A comment really about /etc/X11/applnk/Utilities/gvim.desktop still stands, although maybe should be filed against vim-X11-6.0-0.17
OK, thanks for the feedback - we need to ensure that the menu is deleted. Assigning.
I noticed in the meantime that also emacs and xemacs when opened from a menu with a mouse click attempt to edit a new file named '%f' like gvim from "Utilities" (but not from "Applications"). Is this is a problem with an expansion of empty arguments? See also #24131.
I'm not sure which of the several things mentioned here still apply - this stuff should mostly have been cleaned up in 7.2. Reopen with specifics if some of it wasn't.
I do not think that this applicable any longer. Menus were reorganized and cleaned in the meantime and pointing out that this is needed was the crux of this bug report. :-) Various editors now show up under Programs->Applications.