Bug#407033: gnome-menus: After upgrade to Etch: Applications menu is empty and never gets populated

[Loïc Minier]

 (Please Cc: 407033@, thanks!)

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007, Armando Romero wrote:
> Do you know where is the Gnome applications menu saved?

 It's built from various files, mostly from
 /usr/share/applications/*.desktop.

> Which program is updating the Gnome applications?

 Dropping a .desktop in /usr/share/applications is all it takes; however
 some databases can be updated with some additional commands (such as
 MIME types) associations.

> update-menus does not fix it.

 (This is for the Debian menu and completely unrelated.)

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Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>