Bug#784386: gnome-shell doesn't show applications from /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/

[Michael Biebl]

Am 06.05.2015 um 00:51 schrieb Dennis van Dok:
> Package: gnome-shell
> Version: 3.14.2-3+b1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Recently upgraded to Jessie. Gnome shell doesn't show applications
> that do not have a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications. For
> instance gltron. Not sure if this is a bug with gltron, but the
> menu-xdg package converts Debian menu entries to .desktop files.
> 
> Shouldn't gnome shell be set up to read entries from
> /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg as well?

This is by design.

What menu(-xdg) dumps there is basically unusable and makes a complete
mess of the GNOME menu. So we decided to not show menu-xdg generated
.desktop files.
IIRC, KDE has gone the same way.

Please file a bug against gltron to provide a proper .desktop file.



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