Bug#659029: duplicate/outdated icons in applications menu

[Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.]

On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 16:21 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:

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 Do you have outdated desktop files in /usr/local/share/applications or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

I removed all ~/.local/share/applications and
~/.local/share/applications/menu-xdg
> 
> Do you have the Debian menu enabled (which would explain the duplicate
> entries)? The default is off. Have a look at ~/.config/menus/
> 
I don't have the debian menu enabled anymore.

> 
> 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
> 
> 

The computer that is taking several minutes is an older computer AMD
1800+, Nvidia 7800GS.  I haven't cleaned out the .desktop files on that
one yet.

The computer that I cleaned out the .desktop files is a Lenovo w500.
After cleaning out the .desktop files, it is now responsive.