Bug#316481: gnome: Since 2.10, no (obvious) way to edit menus

[Emmanuel Charpentier]

Package: gnome
Version: 1:2.10.1.1
Severity: important


Using unstable, with frequent (and checked) updates.

Since the upgrade to 2.10, I have found no way to edit menus (I'm thinking
of the "Applications" menu).

Symptoms : right-clicking on a menu item gives me only two options :
	- 'Ajouter ce lanceur au tableau de bord' (i. e. 'Add this launcher to
	  the panel(?)')
	- 'Tout le menu' (i. e. 'Full menu')
Cliking on 'Tout le menu' gives me only two options :
	- 'Ajouter ceci comme tiroir au tableau de bord' ('Add this as a drawer to panel')
	- 'Ajouter ceci comme menu au tableau de bord' ('add this as a menu to panel')

The current help file refer to Gnome 2.6. Perusing it led me to look at
vfolders : I *do* have an "applications-all-users" vfolder in
/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders, readonly to me, bit no "applications" vfolder ;
I have a .gnome2/vfolders/applications.vfolder-info writable file in my home
tree as well as a .gnome2/vfolders/applications/ directory, containing a bunch
of .desktop files, created with the previous versions of Gnome.

So it seems to me that the upgrade process seriously munched something in my
config, which the current doc does not alliow me to find, guess or divine...

>From a end-user point of view, this is a quite serious problem :
	- "RTFM" leads to no solution
	- My desktop is strictly unconfigurable
Hence the "serious" flag...

					Emmanuel Charpentier

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10ec
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome depends on:
ii  bluefish                      1.0-1      advanced Gtk+ HTML editor
ii  gdm-themes                    0.4.1      Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  gnome-cups-manager            0.30-2     CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME
ii  gnome-desktop-environment     1:2.10.1.1 The GNOME Desktop Environment
ii  gnome-office                  1:2.10.1.1 The GNOME Office suite
ii  gnome-themes-extras           0.8.1-1    various themes for the GNOME 2 des
ii  rhythmbox                     0.8.8-13   music player and organizer for GNO
ii  synaptic                      0.57.1-1   Graphical package manager
ii  xscreensaver                  4.21-5     Automatic screensaver for X

gnome recommends no packages.

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