Dear Maintainer,

In gnome-classic the "applications" menu used to spawn programs is mostly
empty. The problem appeared after upgrade of
gnome-panel:amd64 3.18.0-1+b1 -> 3.18.0-1+b2 but a lot of packages were
upgraded at the same time so I'm not sure about exact cause of the problem.
In attempt to rectify the problem I've been trying to twiddle contents
of /etc/xdg/menus/ with no success. In menu there is no individual applications
missing but instead some categories of the menu are empty. Categories
that do have content are "favourites", "accessibility", "graphics", "misc"
and "tools". All other sub-menus are empty, including "Internet",
"Games", "Office", "Science", "Audio & Video". This box has currently
5453 installed packages and I'm quite sure there is at least one for each
category that has proper .desktop file etc. in place.

If I log in using gnome-flashback-metacity session, the menu appears as
expected.

Thank you for your attention,

Hi Antti,

So you are getting this problem with gnome-classic session, not with
gnome-flashback session, right?

gnome-classic session has nothing to do with gnome-panel, so if the problem
appears only there, this bug needs to be reassigned to gnome-shell-extensions
package which provides that package. Please reassign it yourself or let me
know if you want me to do it.

Dmitry Shachnev writes:
 > So you are getting this problem with gnome-classic session, not with
 > gnome-flashback session, right?

Right.

 > gnome-classic session has nothing to do with gnome-panel, so if the problem
 > appears only there, this bug needs to be reassigned to gnome-shell-extensions
 > package which provides that package. Please reassign it yourself or let me
 > know if you want me to do it.

Please reassign, my original selection of filing the bug against
gnome-panel was result of guesswork :)

Control: reassign -1 gnome-shell-extensions 3.18.1-1

Here I meant “… which provides that session”, of course.

Done.