Adding a menu item without a label gets treated as a separator even if label is added later

I can see this is in dbusmenu libdbusmenu-gtk/parser.c:630:
      if (GTK_IS_SEPARATOR_MENU_ITEM (widget) || !find_menu_label (widget))

That logic is a bit off - not having a label doesn't make it a separator...

This the easiest way to reproduce this problem: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/7604811/

Some indicators such as the first version of Syspeek indicator or the Copy.com indicator are affected by this.

This bug was fixed in the package libdbusmenu - 12.10.3+14.10.20140610-0ubuntu1

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libdbusmenu (12.10.3+14.10.20140610-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * Parser: make sure that the old dbus menuitem is detached from the
    widget before recreating When a dbus menuitem has to be recreated,
    we need to disconnect the widget from it, or the old one will be
    reused at next parsing cycle. (LP: #1086563)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:29:30 +0000

Will this be fixed for 14.04?

yes, the SRU is being prepared, it just needed to land in utopic first and we were waiting to get some feedback to make sure the change don't create issues

Great, many thanks.

Been running the patched libdbusmenu for several days in 14.04, haven't noticed any ill or unexpected results

Thanks Doug, I just uploaded to the trusty SRU queue
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+queue?queue_state=1&queue_text=libdbusmenu

Hello Robert, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libdbusmenu into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/12.10.3+14.04.20140612-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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I've checked the test case python script and it displayed indicator with three menu items.

BTW the script should also have:

#!/usr/bin/env python

at the beginning. Maybe it is known for others but I first tried without that and when it failed I looked at other python scripts to know what's missing.

The verification of the Stable Release Update for libdbusmenu has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package libdbusmenu - 12.10.3+14.04.20140612-0ubuntu1

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libdbusmenu (12.10.3+14.04.20140612-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * Backporting lp:~3v1n0/libdbusmenu/really-recreate-menu/+merge/222419
    (LP: #1086563)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:36:28 +0000