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

[Dennis van Dok]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

On 06-05-15 02:04, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 06.05.2015 um 00:51 schrieb Dennis van Dok:

>> 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.

OK, thanks for clearing that up. I couldn't find any information about
how GNOME under Debian finds applications.

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

It worked before, but now it's apparently broken.

Dennis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2

iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVSdqvAAoJEN/62Bl2F+8ZBzEP/ifdVeOqOgs2jEzLNdezxTeA
reDgEwXWmqyAnslB+dQ5Pjaxy4beHVrxnbI72pM6LfxDAiRu559ies/ZY+iZfnmq
ZfpRWnH7bDtArWAMCRpztFC1FeSalvRBWLBq3oXL/176rORowXyiiyGrmH18td0v
Pik4OAZz8jOl9n1Ykty+eC0nDINxQpMga7EqOwQ6daIJhNhqGUbYGj3hW4ktogYY
Qk2q86uwNPebWaEu++xLok8bokouUD7VA2oZ6+SCJz7eKkkjG7iB+rDe2rEekGff
tz35dePS1Iyp0s/Bvd3QzQKiGn7g7A5ok/dz8Avl4gd4JIX+a6I8ndfiXm8ZNtpC
/We0+ZrXF0elGYf8G9HlAxD/ybtavbQj3COoHjOwnJOrDgbtxdqiDc2p2auCx/WW
YM4EoAdYcq0CQv6Kj4FIcCsGtyT2su4NnojPdXg+V8vBVzqx6ci46AFvcrZfbf8K
KE5A5hckKSQVGUfsZrlMx6QNtncDWbgmJNf53s1XmwMl0BLMD7esreNEz520hdhc
zb3tPswCA310ope0718cPAS8XJr4sfWhiqzyhPF5Qalwnvn96L2crenqLaSSzdd6
5soQGM1DmYU1KPrANAs537fzjakOdcmuScES3jlgscruwV5rfmSrBf+jD0wTbfGz
X6vWRp34nFcDa6ceHSdq
=u0ba
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----