Bug#647970: gnome-panel: main menu entries do not have context menu anymore

[Witold Baryluk]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 3.0.2-1
Severity: normal

Hello again GNOME maintainers,

In previous version all activators in main menu,
(in Programs in Left Upper corner)
had a context menu after clicking right mouse button,
which allowed easily to add this activator to panel
or desktop (and then easily move it on the panel or desktop).
There is currently no such functionality in main menu.
Actually clicking right mouse button activates an entry,
and launches application. It is unintuitive.

I know there is way to add activator via "Add to the panel..."
dialog but it have problems (no easy way to maximize window,
entries are larger, so searching is harder, it loads
all icons and descriptions, which can take something around
one minute, and mixes applications/launchers with applets,
which are somehow different concepts).

I think main menu entries should have context menu
with "Add this to panel" (or whatever it was called in previous
versions). In fact also something like "Hide this application",
"Rename" may also by useful
(it could be unhided/renamed/defaulted in "Modify menu").


Regards,
Witek



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-t43-prod-up-09694-gc861cd3-dirty
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pl_PL.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.2.1-1                
ii  gnome-menus                3.0.1-3                
ii  gnome-panel-data           3.0.2-1                
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.2.0-2                
ii  libc6                      2.13-21                
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.10.2-6.1             
ii  libcairo2                  1.10.2-6.1             
ii  libcamel-1.2-23            3.0.3-1                
ii  libdconf0                  0.7.5-3                
ii  libebook1.2-10             3.0.3-1                
ii  libecal1.2-8               3.0.3-1                
ii  libedataserver1.2-14       3.0.3-1                
ii  libedataserverui-3.0-0     3.0.3-1                
ii  libfontconfig1             2.8.0-3                
ii  libfreetype6               2.4.7-2                
ii  libgconf2-4                2.32.4-1               
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.24.0-1               
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.28.8-1               
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-0       3.0.2-2                
ii  libgnome-menu2             3.0.1-3                
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.0.12-2               
ii  libgweather-3-0            3.2.1-1                
ii  libical0                   0.44-3                 
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.7-2              
ii  libnspr4-0d                4.8.9-1                
ii  libnss3-1d                 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1
ii  libpanel-applet-4-0        3.0.2-1                
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.29.4-2               
ii  librsvg2-2                 2.34.1-3               
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.0-2              
ii  libsoup2.4-1               2.36.0-1               
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.7.9-1                
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.12-1                 
ii  libtelepathy-glib0         0.16.1-1               
ii  libwnck-3-0                3.2.1-1                
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.4.4-2              
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.6-3              
ii  libxml2                    2.7.8.dfsg-5           
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.3.2-2              
ii  python                     2.7.2-9                
ii  python-gconf               2.28.1-3               

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  alacarte               0.13.2-3 
ii  evolution-data-server  3.0.3-1  
ii  gnome-applets          3.2.1-1  
ii  gnome-control-center   1:3.0.2-3
ii  gnome-icon-theme       3.2.1.2-1
ii  gnome-session          3.0.2-3  
ii  gvfs                   1.8.2-2  

Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests:
ii  epiphany-browser                      3.0.4-1              
ii  evolution                             3.0.3-2              
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.0.1-1              
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user-guide]  3.2.1-1              
ii  nautilus                              3.0.2-4              
ii  rxvt-unicode [x-terminal-emulator]    9.12-1               
ii  terminal.app [x-terminal-emulator]    0.9.4+cvs20051125-6.1
ii  terminator [x-terminal-emulator]      0.95-1               
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  0.4.8-1              
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           276-1                
ii  yelp                                  3.2.1+dfsg-1+b1      

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