[gentoo-amd64] Wine menus

[gentoo-amd64] Wine menus

[Clemente Aguiar]

Ever since the upgrade of Gnome to 2.2.6 I have had a problem with the
Wine menus.

Actually the Wine menus are gone and the individual icons for the
windoze apps, such as Winamp, are now scatter under the menu "Others".

One interesting bit, is that if I delete the
$HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu file, I get the correct Wine
menu structure, but the moment I open the Menu Editor (alacarte), it
creates a new $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu and the Wine
menu structure disappears and the icons all end up in the "Others"
category.

Does anybody else have this problem? Can anybody help me?

Clemente

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Wine menus

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/29/2009 05:25 PM, Clemente Aguiar wrote:
> Ever since the upgrade of Gnome to 2.2.6 I have had a problem with the
> Wine menus.
>
> Actually the Wine menus are gone and the individual icons for the
> windoze apps, such as Winamp, are now scatter under the menu "Others".
>
> One interesting bit, is that if I delete the
> $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu file, I get the correct Wine
> menu structure, but the moment I open the Menu Editor (alacarte), it
> creates a new $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu and the Wine
> menu structure disappears and the icons all end up in the "Others"
> category.
>
> Does anybody else have this problem? Can anybody help me?

That is quite peculiar since the same happens with KDE4 (where it was 
working OK in KDE3).

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Wine menus

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 10/29/2009 05:25 PM, Clemente Aguiar wrote:
>>
>> Ever since the upgrade of Gnome to 2.2.6 I have had a problem with the
>> Wine menus.
>>
>> Actually the Wine menus are gone and the individual icons for the
>> windoze apps, such as Winamp, are now scatter under the menu "Others".
>>
>> One interesting bit, is that if I delete the
>> $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu file, I get the correct Wine
>> menu structure, but the moment I open the Menu Editor (alacarte), it
>> creates a new $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu and the Wine
>> menu structure disappears and the icons all end up in the "Others"
>> category.
>>
>> Does anybody else have this problem? Can anybody help me?
>
> That is quite peculiar since the same happens with KDE4 (where it was
> working OK in KDE3).

I haven't tried it, but this looks like it may contain a solution/workaround:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#KDE_4_Menu_Fix.5B1.5D

(quoting that page from here on)

 KDE 4 Menu Fix[1]

The Wine menu items may appear in "Lost & Found" instead of the Wine
menu for KDE 4. This is because kde-applications.menu is missing the
MergeDir option.

Edit /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu

At the end of the file add <MergeDir>applications-merged</MergeDir>
after <DefaultMergeDirs/>, it should look like this:

        <Include>
                <And>
                        <Category>KDE</Category>
                        <Category>Core</Category>
                </And>
        </Include>
        <DefaultMergeDirs/>
        <MergeDir>applications-merged</MergeDir>
        <MergeFile>applications-kmenuedit.menu</MergeFile>
</Menu>

Alternatively you can create a symlink to a folder that KDE does see:

ln -s ~/.config/menus/applications-merged
~/.config/menus/kde-applications-merged

This has the added bonus that an update to KDE won't change it, but is
per user instead of system wide.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Wine menus

[Clemente Aguiar]

Qui, 2009-10-29 às 14:09 -0500, Paul Hartman escreveu:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> > On 10/29/2009 05:25 PM, Clemente Aguiar wrote:
> >>
> >> Ever since the upgrade of Gnome to 2.2.6 I have had a problem with the
> >> Wine menus.
> >>
> >> Actually the Wine menus are gone and the individual icons for the
> >> windoze apps, such as Winamp, are now scatter under the menu "Others".
> >>
> >> One interesting bit, is that if I delete the
> >> $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu file, I get the correct Wine
> >> menu structure, but the moment I open the Menu Editor (alacarte), it
> >> creates a new $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu and the Wine
> >> menu structure disappears and the icons all end up in the "Others"
> >> category.
> >>
> >> Does anybody else have this problem? Can anybody help me?
> >
> > That is quite peculiar since the same happens with KDE4 (where it was
> > working OK in KDE3).
> 
> I haven't tried it, but this looks like it may contain a solution/workaround:
> 
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#KDE_4_Menu_Fix.5B1.5D
> 
> (quoting that page from here on)
> 
>  KDE 4 Menu Fix[1]
> 
> The Wine menu items may appear in "Lost & Found" instead of the Wine
> menu for KDE 4. This is because kde-applications.menu is missing the
> MergeDir option.
> 
> Edit /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu
> 
> At the end of the file add <MergeDir>applications-merged</MergeDir>
> after <DefaultMergeDirs/>, it should look like this:
> 
>         <Include>
>                 <And>
>                         <Category>KDE</Category>
>                         <Category>Core</Category>
>                 </And>
>         </Include>
>         <DefaultMergeDirs/>
>         <MergeDir>applications-merged</MergeDir>
>         <MergeFile>applications-kmenuedit.menu</MergeFile>
> </Menu>
> 
> Alternatively you can create a symlink to a folder that KDE does see:
> 
> ln -s ~/.config/menus/applications-merged
> ~/.config/menus/kde-applications-merged
> 
> This has the added bonus that an update to KDE won't change it, but is
> per user instead of system wide.
> 

Unfortunately none of the two options seem to work with gnome.
But it did give me some ideas and I did try something that does solve
the problem.

Adding either 

<DefaultMergeDirs/>

or

<MergeDir>applications-merged</MergeDir>

to

$HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu

I think this is a workaround for a bug, so I am going to report it.

Clemente

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Wine menus

[Daemon Xavier]

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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Clemente Aguiar
<ca-lists@madeiratecnopolo.pt> wrote:
> Ever since the upgrade of Gnome to 2.2.6 I have had a problem with the
> Wine menus.
>
> Actually the Wine menus are gone and the individual icons for the
> windoze apps, such as Winamp, are now scatter under the menu "Others".
>
> One interesting bit, is that if I delete the
> $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu file, I get the correct Wine
> menu structure, but the moment I open the Menu Editor (alacarte), it
> creates a new $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu and the Wine
> menu structure disappears and the icons all end up in the "Others"
> category.
>
> Does anybody else have this problem? Can anybody help me?
>
> Clemente
>
>
>
>

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Wine menus

[Duncan]

Daemon Xavier posted on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:03:46 -0400 as excerpted:

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Wine menus

[Daniel de Oliveira]

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On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 16:18, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> Daemon Xavier posted on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:03:46 -0400 as excerpted:
>
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