[gentoo-user] gnome menu question

[gentoo-user] gnome menu question

[David Relson]

G'day,

It has been my impression that the gnome-panel's main menu is based on
info in files in /usr/share/applications.  However there are items in my
menus (for example, other/kate and other/kwrite) without files and
there are files without entries (for example, virtualbox.desktop).

I've tried 'killall gnome-panel' to force a restart and, hopefully,
rebuild the menu tree.  The panel did restart, but the menus didn't
update and my icons for editor, mail, and browser were b0rked -- not
what I wanted!

Also, looking in ebuilds I've found menu and desktop related
directives, like "make_desktop_entry ..." and "doins ... desktop", but
sometimes /usr/share/applications doesn't have a corresponding entry.

Can somebody please explain how the gnome main menu is built, where it
resides, and how to force a rebuild?

Thanks.

David

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome menu question

[Albert Hopkins]

On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 23:29 -0400, David Relson wrote:
[...]
> Can somebody please explain how the gnome main menu is built, where it
> resides, and how to force a rebuild?

http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome menu question

[David Relson]

On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:40:56 -0400
Albert Hopkins wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 23:29 -0400, David Relson wrote:
> [...]
> > Can somebody please explain how the gnome main menu is built, where
> > it resides, and how to force a rebuild?
> 
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/

The link to the Desktop Menu Specification is appreciated.  However
it's not helpful from a practical standpoint.  My gnome main menu is
missing entries to some installed applications and has entries for some
applications that aren't installed.  I'm looking for the tool that will
find menu information created during emerge and will update gnome
appropriately.  What is the tool???