Bug 11748

Summary:	duplicate menu entries in gnome
Product:	Portland	Reporter:	Lei Zhang <thestig>
Component:	xdg-utils	Assignee:	Fathi Boudra <fabo>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	.desktop file added to the menu .directory file screenshot proposed patch

Description Lei Zhang 2007-07-27 14:34:27 UTC

I'm trying to use xdg-desktop-menu to add menu items to a directory under one of the top level menus.

I ran the command:

xdg-desktop-menu install --novendor --mode system /usr/share/desktop-directories/Games.directory bar.directory bar.desktop

On this system, some third party software package created /usr/share/gnome/apps, so xdg-desktop-menu put a bar.desktop file there, with "OnlyShowIn=Old;" Gnome seems to ignore this, and thus we get a second menu entry.
(see screenshot: http://linux.ucla.edu/~leiz/freedesktop/duplicate_menu.png)

My proposed solution is to ignore /usr/share/gnome/apps if we detect a version of Gnome that knows about .desktop files in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/. I'm guessing Gnome 2.8 and up, but I could be wrong.

Comment 1 Lei Zhang 2007-07-27 14:35:36 UTC

Created attachment 10904 [details]
.desktop file added to the menu

Comment 2 Lei Zhang 2007-07-27 14:35:59 UTC

Created attachment 10905 [details]
.directory file

Comment 3 Lei Zhang 2007-07-27 14:36:48 UTC

Created attachment 10906 [details]
screenshot

Comment 4 Lei Zhang 2007-07-27 14:40:21 UTC

Created attachment 10907 [details] [review]
proposed patch

Comment 5 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-16 13:28:35 UTC

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