Bug#803331: gnome-panel: In gnome-classic a lot of applications are missing from menu

[Antti Järvinen]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 3.18.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

In gnome-classic the "applications" menu used to spawn programs is mostly
empty. The problem appeared after upgrade of 
gnome-panel:amd64 3.18.0-1+b1 -> 3.18.0-1+b2 but a lot of packages were 
upgraded at the same time so I'm not sure about exact cause of the problem. 
In attempt to rectify the problem I've been trying to twiddle contents
of /etc/xdg/menus/ with no success. In menu there is no individual applications
missing but instead some categories of the menu are empty. Categories 
that do have content are "favourites", "accessibility", "graphics", "misc"
and "tools". All other sub-menus are empty, including "Internet", 
"Games", "Office", "Science", "Audio & Video". This box has currently
5453 installed packages and I'm quite sure there is at least one for each 
category that has proper .desktop file etc. in place.

If I log in using gnome-flashback-metacity session, the menu appears as
expected. 

Thank you for your attention,

--
Antti Järvinen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-menus            3.13.3-6
ii  gnome-panel-data       3.18.1-1
ii  libatk1.0-0            2.18.0-1
ii  libc6                  2.19-22
ii  libcairo-gobject2      1.14.2-2
ii  libcairo2              1.14.2-2
ii  libcamel-1.2-54        3.18.1-1
ii  libdconf1              0.24.0-2
ii  libecal-1.2-19         3.18.1-1
ii  libedataserver-1.2-21  3.18.1-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0     2.32.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.46.1-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-12  3.18.1-1
ii  libgnome-menu-3-0      3.13.3-6
ii  libgtk-3-0             3.18.2-1
ii  libgweather-3-6        3.18.1-1
ii  libical1a              1.0.1-0.1
ii  libnspr4               2:4.10.9-2
ii  libnspr4-0d            2:4.10.9-2
ii  libnss3                2:3.20-1
ii  libnss3-1d             2:3.20-1
ii  libpanel-applet0       3.18.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0         1.38.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0    1.38.1-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-13
ii  librsvg2-2             2.40.11-1
ii  libsecret-1-0          0.18.3-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.52.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0           3.8.11.1-1
ii  libwnck-3-0            3.14.0-2
ii  libx11-6               2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxau6                1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxext6               2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxml2                2.9.2+zdfsg1-4
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.5.0-1

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  alacarte                 3.11.91-2
ii  evolution-data-server    3.18.1-1
ii  gnome-applets            3.18.1-1
ii  gnome-control-center     1:3.18.1-1+b1
ii  gnome-session-flashback  3.18.1-1
ii  gvfs                     1.26.1.1-1

Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests:
ii  evolution-common                      3.18.1-1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.18.1-1
ii  gnome-user-guide                      3.18.1-1
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emulator]         4:15.08.2-1
ii  nautilus                              3.18.1-1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           320-1
ii  yelp                                  3.16.1-1

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