Bug#659029: duplicate/outdated icons in applications menu

[Michael Biebl]

On 07.02.2012 15:57, Brent S. Elmer wrote:
> Package: gnome-shell
> Version: 3.2.2.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> My gnome3/gnome-shell experience has not been very good so far.  I have
> installed gnome-shell on several up to date wheezy computers.  On all of them,
> the Applications menu is unusable because it is so slow to show any icons.  On
> some of the systems, it takes several minutes to show anything when going to
> the Activities and clicking on Applications.  I have noticed that there are a
> lot of duplicate icons and there are also a lot of icons for applications that
> are not installed anymore.  I don't know if all of this cruft is causing the
> slowness or not.  I can use the Main Menu application to clean some of this up.
> I have found that the duplicates and uninstalled items are all in the "Other"
> menu.  When I uncheck the item it does go away.  I cannot delete the item line
> though.  I try to right click and select delete on the uninstalled items but
> nothing happens.  My wheezy install is clean in that I do not have any orphaned
> packages installed.  Where is the Other menu item picking up all of this old
> junk and is there a way to clear it out.  I only install applications using
> Synaptic or apt-get directly.  An example of items showing up that are not
> installed anymore is Emacs 22 which hasn't been installed for a long time.
> Something is not being handled correctly with the menu items when gnome-shell
> is being installed making the Activities->Applications method of selecting

Do you have outdated desktop files in /usr/local/share/applications or
~/.local/share/applications/?

Do you have the Debian menu enabled (which would explain the duplicate
entries)? The default is off. Have a look at ~/.config/menus/

> applications to start unusable.  Due to the unusability of the Applications
> menu, I have gone to opening everything using Synapse which I actually like.
> The typical user though probably will not do that and consider gnome-shell
> unusable.  Which it is if it takes several minutes to show the application
> icons to start a program.

What kind of hardware do you have (it takes at most 2-3 secs here when I
initially open the Applications tab, subsequent it is almost instantaneous).

I have to acknowledge know, that I rarely use the Application menu and
got really used to the builtin search


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