App menus aren't shown in the panel if the app is also exporting menus via dbusmenu

Bug #999827 reported by vmc
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This bug affects 25 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Application Menu Indicator
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned
indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

This happens for nautilus, which exposes an application menu but still uses GtkMenu for window menus. This makes all application actions inaccessible (New Window, Connect to Server, Preferences, About, Help and Quit).

From a new install :

quantal-desktop-amd64.iso 15-May-2012 08:42 711M

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vmc (vmclark)
description: updated
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tags: added: bot-comment
affects: ubuntu → nautilus (Ubuntu)
summary: - Quantal Nautilus misssing Preferences
+ Quantal Nautilus missing Preferences
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: Quantal Nautilus missing Preferences

Thank you for your bug report, could you make a screencast of what happens when you try to open the preferences dialog?

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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sojourner (itsmealso2) wrote :

here is a screenshot .

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

oh, that's about quantal, to check by somebody who is already running that I guess...

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Robert, you did the update, could you check on that?

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

These items were moved into an application menu, but it appears that Unity is not correctly showing this menu with the normal menu.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

You can see the correct behaviour in GNOME shell or in Unity with:
$ killall nautilus
$ UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= nautilus

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

I am told indicator-application is responsible for this menu trickery. Leaving the nautilus task open as it looks like a nautilus bug to users.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in indicator-application (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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AO (aofrl10n) wrote :

I fail to understand where the "Preferences" are supposed to be now. Running $ killall nautilus $ UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= nautilus doesnt change anything. For example, where am I supposed to set One click behavior now?

affects: indicator-application (Ubuntu) → indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu)
Changed in indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
summary: - Quantal Nautilus missing Preferences
+ Quantal Nautilus missing Preferences (incorrect handling of appmenu and
+ menu used together)
summary: - Quantal Nautilus missing Preferences (incorrect handling of appmenu and
- menu used together)
+ Nautilus missing Preferences (incorrect handling of appmenu and menu
+ used together)
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Low → High
Changed in indicator-appmenu:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) → nobody
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Lars Karlitski (larsu) wrote : Re: Nautilus missing Preferences (incorrect handling of appmenu and menu used together)

Nautilus has gained an application menu, which is implemented with gmenumodel. Its window menus are still using GtkMenuBar, which gets picked up by the ubuntu-menuproxy plugin and exported with dbusmenu.

indicator-appmenu can handle both dbusmenu and gmenumodel, but as far as I can see not both at the same time. That means, applications need to export all their menus using either gmenumodel or dbusmenu. indicator-appmenu seems to favor dbusmenu, which is why only nautilus' window menus are visible in the panel.

Does somebody know when nautilus is planned to use gmenumodel for everything? Are there any other applications in this indermediate state?

summary: - Nautilus missing Preferences (incorrect handling of appmenu and menu
- used together)
+ App menus aren't shown in the panel if the app is also exporting menus
+ via dbusmenu
Lars Karlitski (larsu)
description: updated
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

The preferences menu is showing up in an ubuntu session with the current nautilus git by clicking on "Home Folder" in the unity panel
(- along with - New Window, Connect to Server, About Files, Help & Quit.
All of the other menu items now reside in the toolbar cog inc. Bookmarks, so it looks like Ubuntu may have some adapting to do..

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Colin Law (colin-law) wrote :

For anyone looking for a workaround it appears that the missing nautilus items (new window, preferences etc) are accessible via the HUD.

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Colin Law (colin-law) wrote :

Does this bug also cause most of the nautilus menu items not to be available via the HUD, or is that a separate bug? Virtually none of them work for me.

affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) → gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
no longer affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

@Colin: not sure about the hud issues but I just uploaded a gnome-settings-daemon update that should work around the menu items missing (like preferences)

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

I believe this problem is also the root problem for missing menu items in Totem 3.5.90. Currently, Totem 3.5.90 is in the GNOME3 PPA for Quantal. Totem is providing both the new GNOME App Menu and the traditional File Edit View menus. Unity shows the GNOME menu but not the traditional menu.

The workaround to run UBUNTU_MENU_PROXY= totem works.

I believe Nautilus 3.6 no longer suffers from this bug as they've moved their menus to the new view and "gear" toolbar menu buttons.

Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in indicator-appmenu:
assignee: nobody → Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ted Gould (ted)
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Jim Hodapp (jhodapp) wrote :

Seems to no longer be relevant to Nautilus in 12.10 (as of the time of writing), which is v 3.4.2.

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote :

It seems that there are no apps doing this except EOG which has all the same entries in the window menus. So this isn't as important. We'll reevaluate as applications change and get modified.

Changed in indicator-appmenu:
importance: High → Medium
Changed in indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu):
importance: High → Medium
Changed in indicator-appmenu:
assignee: Ted Gould (ted) → nobody
Changed in indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ted Gould (ted) → nobody
assignee: nobody → Ted Gould (ted)
assignee: Ted Gould (ted) → nobody
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Francewhoa (francewhoa) wrote :

Confirming this issue with Ubuntu LTS 12.04.1, 32bits

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Robert Ross (robertross) wrote :

I have just encountered this same issue. 12.04.1, 32bit

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desrt (desrt) wrote :

fwiw: this will be fixed when unity-gtk-module lands.

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desrt (desrt) wrote :

note also: unity-gtk-module is pretty much ready to land but it didn't make feature freeze, so I guess it will be landing early in 'S'.

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