Bug#477746: gnome-menus: bring back gnome-menu-spec-test

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

forwarded 477746 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542069
thanks

Sam Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 12:20 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> Sam Morris wrote:
>>> It was particularly useful for:
>>>
>>>  * finding out where in the menu a given application lives in my guise
>>>    as an end-user who just installed a new
>>>    application. 
>> I usually look at the menu for this, guessing where it will be :)
> 
> This is not convenient. Sometimes a desktop entry will show up with the
> correct icon, sometimes it will not. Sometimes the menu entry will be
> named after the application installed, sometimes it will be a generic
> name, and sometimes it will be something totally different. Sometimes it
> will appear under Preferences, sometimes it will appear under
> Adminstration and sometimes it will appear under Programs.
> 
> As an end-user I find gnome-menu-spec very useful for revealing where on
> the menu a program is. As a system administrator I find it extremley
> useful when debugging custom menu entries, custom menu categories, etc.
> And also it's very useful when doing tech support over the phone to be
> able to ssh into the machine the user is in front of, and run
> gnome-menu-spec-test to find out where a menu item is--the variations
> listed above, and more, make it almost impossible to find applications
> on the menu sometimes.
> 
>>>  
>>>  * debugging .menu and .desktop files while developing a new application
>>>    or packaging one for Debian.
>> For .desktop files there's desktop-file-validate in desktop-file-utils. I don't
>> know if there's any other alternative for .menu files, but if there is I'd say
>> we could leave without this.
> 
> This tells me that my .desktop file is syntactically correct, but it
> does not indicate where on the menu it appears!

Alright, I've forwarded this upstream at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542069, let's see what upstream thinks
about bringing it back.

Cheers,
Emilio

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