When installed as user and ~/.local/share/applications didn't exist at the time gnome-panel was started. SUSE 10.0 / gnome 2.12
The following workaround makes the entry apear: mkdir -p ~/.config/menus/applications-merged touch ~/.config/menus/applications-merged/dummy.menu
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