Icons and menus

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 08:31:37 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:

> Yesterday I got a bug report on the bittorrent-gui package, the issue
> being that no icon appeared in the user's menu for the application. I
> was unable to reproduce the error; removing the package removed the item
> from my menu and reinstalling it put it back immediately. However,
> remembering a similar issue someone mentioned on fedora-list a while
> back, I suggested that the reporter try restarting gnome. The menu item
> then appeared for him. Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

Never seen it before. Only menu related problem in GNOME I still see
is that icons from KDE apps are not displayed until logout/re-login.
As if the current icon caching is at fault and doesn't find uncached
icons from within an ordinary user's account.

> I do
> have a postinstall script that does:
> 
> /usr/bin/update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications &>/dev/null
> || :

This is only for MIME types and doesn't affect menu entries.

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Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at users.sf.net>
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