Just to point out that mentioned workaround doesn't work on some systems
because LANG environment variable has uppercase letters on UTF8 part and
menu cache file has lowercase letters in UTF8 part. For example:
desktop.${LANG}.cache
translates into:
desktop.en_US.UTF-8.cache
and system expects:
desktop.en_US.utf8.cache
cache file name (notice UTF8 and utf8 part).
It is best to manually go to /usr/share/applications/ and to look for
cache file to be sure about cache file name and to adjust part of
workaround command accordingly, at least thats what I had to do on my
lucid 32 bit.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/581838
Title:
Manually created menu item in Gnome disappears from Gnome, Ubuntu
10.04 (64 bit).after reboot
Status in “gnome-menus” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Manually created menu item in Gnome disappears from Gnome, Ubuntu 10.04 (64
bit).after the system is rebooted.
Menu items in Gnome should not go away one the system is shutdown and started
again.
Here are the steps to reproduce the problem :
Steps 0-8 just create a new menu item.
1. Start with a newly installed Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit). Gnome.
2. Select menu System ->Preferences->Main Menu.
3. Select “Applications” on the left.
4. Click on “New Menu” button.
5. Enter “gksudo nautilus” in both fields. Click”OK”.
6. Select the “gksudo nautilus” menu.
7. Click “New Item”.
8. Again (just for simplicity) in all fields enter “gksudo nautilus”. A new
item is created. You could also see that the new menu and the item are
available in the Applications menu and work fine.
The goal is to make this new menu entry available for all users. As
expected the steps above create three files under my home directory:
1. ~/.local/share/applications/alacarte-made.desktop
2. ~/.local/share/desktop-directories/alacarte-made.directory
3. ~/.config/menus/applications.menu
They now should be moved to a common location which is accessible
for all the users.
9. In accordance with the spec
(http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/1.0/), move the
alacarte-made.desktop file to directory /usr/share/applications.
10. Everything still looks and works fine, just as expected. But here is the
problem.
11. If you now reboot your 64 bit system the menu item would not show up any
longer. The only way I found to see the menu entry again is to open the
/usr/share/applications/alacarte-made.desktop file and to add a space and save
it ( this works only till the next reboot). I tried to 'touch' the file but it
did not help.
12. The above steps work fine on my 32 bit Ubuntu 10.04 or in KDE. In both
of
these cases the menu item stays there after the system is rebooted.
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