Description of problem: Many items for old-style .desktop files in /usr/share/gnome/apps and /etc/X11/applnk appear to be missing from the GNOME menu; they don't even appear in "Other". In fact, the "Other" menu doesn't appear at all. This is true e.g. for entries added by 3rd party apps like Anyware Office and CrossOver Office. To make a long story short, I suspect that something is wroing with <OnlyUnallocated/> test for "Other". If I remove the line, all missing items appear in "Other", but unfortunately, so do a large proportion of the entries already included elsewhere. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.38-1 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add a simple .desktop file, without Keyword line or anything, to /usr/share/gnome/apps/Applications 2. Open Applications menu Actual results: Entry corresponding to .desktop file appears in "Others" menu. Expected results: Others menu doesn't exist; entry appears nowhere else, as far as I can tell. Additional info: The contents of a failed entry; filename anyware.desktop: [Desktop Entry] Name=Anyware Name[de]=Anyware Name[fr]=Anyware Name[cn]=Anyware Name[jp]=Anyware Comment=Anyware Office Suite Comment[de]=Anyware Office Suite Comment[fr]=Suite Anyware Office Comment[cn]=Anyware Office Suite Comment[jp]=Anyware Office Suite Exec=/opt/vistasource/office Icon=/usr/share/icons/aplx48x48.xpm Terminal=0 MultipleArgs=0 Type=Application
What's the status of this bug? At fedora.us, an application with categories "Application;Science;Education;X-Fedora;" only shows up in KDE's "Other" menu and doesn't show up at all in GNOME's menu.
hp is the owner of the menu setup, reassigning.
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We're not using Fedora Core right now, but it looks like Enterprise Linux 4WS has a similar problem. In fact, the menu entries do appear on that release, but not under "Others". Instead, anything stored under /usr/share/gnome/apps/Applications will appear in a separate submenu called Applications. This behaviour is clearly related to the one described in bug 127082, and I see it e.g. for is the file /usr/share/gnome/apps/Applications/gfax.desktop containing: [Desktop Entry] Name=Gfax Name[de]=Gfax Name[es]=Gfax Name[fr]=Gfax Name[no]=Gfax Name[pt]=Gfax Name[pt_BR]=Gfax Name[sk]=Gfax Comment=Gnome Fax Application Comment[de]=Gnome Fax Programm Comment[es]=Gnome Fax Application Comment[fr]=Application Gnome Fax Comment[no]=Gnome Fax Application Comment[pt]=Gnome Fax Application Comment[pt_BR]=Aplica��o Fax Gnome Comment[sk]=GNOME aplik�cie pre fax TryExec=gfax Exec=gfax Icon=gfax.png Terminal=0 Type=Application
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