Bug#872879: wmaker menu lost most of my apps

[Doug Torrance]

On 08/22/2017 03:39 PM, anomie at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 08:58:01AM -0400, Doug Torrance wrote:
>> What are the contents of your ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu
> 
> One line:
> 
> /etc/GNUstep/Defaults/menu.hook
> 
> Removing ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu brings back some/most of the
> applications, although all the submenus are somewhat annoyingly nested
> under an "Applications" submenu.
> 
> Also, /etc/GNUstep/Defaults/menu.hook doesn't exist.
> 
>> and /etc/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu?
> 
> One line:
> 
> "menu.hook"
> 
>> Does the file /usr/share/WindowMaker/menu.hook exist? Is it a symbolic link
>> to /etc/GNUstep/Defaults/plmenu.Debian?  (For some reason, they're not
>> showing up in the filelist [1], even though they ought to...)
> 
> Yes, and yes.

Ok, great!  So it seems like the issue was that the WMRootMenu in your 
home directory was no longer pointing to the correct file.

Do you think the correct fix to this bug would be better documentation 
for the change?  Or something else?

Thanks!
Doug