Description of problem: gnome-menus uses a menu-file called applications-gnome.menu. DefaultMergeDirs then becomes applications-gnome-merged instead of applications-merged and this breaks all the *-menus packages in Fedora (astronomy-menus, electronics-menu, multimedia-menus, security-menus). We could add symlinks in all these packages, but this is just a workaround. applications-merged is supposed to work for all desktops and panels. The xdg Desktop Menu Specification is very clear about this: "Note that a system that uses either gnome-applications.menu or kde-applications.menu depending on the desktop environment in use must still use applications-merged as the default merge directory in both cases." Source: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ar01s02.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-menus >= 3.0 Additional information: The real problem is that gnome-menu is using applications-gnome.menu while it should use gnome-applications.menu. gnome- is the $XDG_MENU_PREFIX, not a suffix: "For example if a system contains both the GNOME and the KDE desktop environments it can decide to use gnome-applications.menu as the menu layout in GNOME sessions and kde-applications.menu as the menu layout in KDE sessions. To correctly reflect this, it should set the $XDG_MENU_PREFIX environment variable to "gnome-" respectively "kde-"." I'm going to file a bug about this in the GNOME Bugzilla.
Still broken in Fedora 17. Menu structure properly shows up in Xfce, LXDE, Icewm, KDE, and Openbox, but not in Gnome. Various rpm packages that are supposed to add these menus seem to be ignored by Gnome-menus. The workaround mentioned in bug 754710 (http://chitlesh.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/restoring-electronics-menu-in-gnome3/) sort of works, but that only adds electronics-menus at the top level and does not include the various sub-menus seen when using other window managers such as Xfce.
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Problem still exists, reopening against rawhide.
I symlinked applications-gnome-merged -> applications-merged in /etc/xdg/menus as work around on our F17 systems for the time being. This seems like something the gnome package should be able to do relatively easily.
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