Qui, 2009-10-29 às 14:09 -0500, Paul Hartman escreveu:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@...> wrote:
> > On 10/29/2009 05:25 PM, Clemente Aguiar wrote:
> >>
> >> Ever since the upgrade of Gnome to 2.2.6 I have had a problem with the
> >> Wine menus.
> >>
> >> Actually the Wine menus are gone and the individual icons for the
> >> windoze apps, such as Winamp, are now scatter under the menu "Others".
> >>
> >> One interesting bit, is that if I delete the
> >> $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu file, I get the correct Wine
> >> menu structure, but the moment I open the Menu Editor (alacarte), it
> >> creates a new $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu and the Wine
> >> menu structure disappears and the icons all end up in the "Others"
> >> category.
> >>
> >> Does anybody else have this problem? Can anybody help me?
> >
> > That is quite peculiar since the same happens with KDE4 (where it was
> > working OK in KDE3).
> 
> I haven't tried it, but this looks like it may contain a solution/workaround:
> 
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#KDE_4_Menu_Fix.5B1.5D
> 
> (quoting that page from here on)
> 
>  KDE 4 Menu Fix[1]
> 
> The Wine menu items may appear in "Lost & Found" instead of the Wine
> menu for KDE 4. This is because kde-applications.menu is missing the
> MergeDir option.
> 
> Edit /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu
> 
> At the end of the file add <MergeDir>applications-merged</MergeDir>
> after <DefaultMergeDirs/>, it should look like this:
> 
>         <Include>
>                 <And>
>                         <Category>KDE</Category>
>                         <Category>Core</Category>
>                 </And>
>         </Include>
>         <DefaultMergeDirs/>
>         <MergeDir>applications-merged</MergeDir>
>         <MergeFile>applications-kmenuedit.menu</MergeFile>
> </Menu>
> 
> Alternatively you can create a symlink to a folder that KDE does see:
> 
> ln -s ~/.config/menus/applications-merged
> ~/.config/menus/kde-applications-merged
> 
> This has the added bonus that an update to KDE won't change it, but is
> per user instead of system wide.
> 

Unfortunately none of the two options seem to work with gnome.
But it did give me some ideas and I did try something that does solve
the problem.

Adding either 

<DefaultMergeDirs/>

or

<MergeDir>applications-merged</MergeDir>

to

$HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu

I think this is a workaround for a bug, so I am going to report it.

Clemente