It seems that Japa is not in the Gnome menu.

Best regards
Torquil Sørensen

reassign 589401 gnome
thanks

The japa package ships a menu file. The Gnome maintainers have
intentionally disabled the Debian menu system. Maybe this is a bug in
Gnome?

Helmut

Le dimanche 18 juillet 2010 à 13:12 +0200, Helmut Grohne a écrit :

No. As you said, it is intentional.

I think (could be wrong) that a *.desktop file is necessary for an app to appear
in the Gnome menu? Perhaps a good solution would be for the Debian package
building process to autogenerate such files from the menu-file if they do not
already exist?

It seems inefficient to have every package maintainer create both menu and
*.desktop files.

I did now install the "alacarte" app, and enabled a Debian sub-menu within the
gnome menu. It strikes me as quite strange that it is not there by default in
the Debian OS, since gnome apps are only a fraction of the available gui apps in
debian.

Should I close this again then?

Torquil

Hi Torquil,

Thanks for your investigation. Such a tool partly exists.

For the menu to .desktop conversion there is the menu-xdg package. This
could be used with gnome, however the maintainers decided not to do so.

This is correct. The current standard for Debian is to provide a menu
file. There are some ideas about changing this to using .desktop files,
because more distributions use this method.

Good to know, that you found a workaround.

No. Please don't. It is a bug and it is not fixed. If the gnome
maintainers do not intend to fix it, they should tag it as wontfix.

To me it looks like the long term solution should be removing the Debian
menu system and replacing it with the system proposed by
freedesktop.org.

Helmut

tags 589401 + wontfix
thanks

Indeed.

Regards,
Emilio