Wine applications not being added to Wine sub-menu about mate-menus HOT 25 CLOSED

Same here, Ubuntu 12.04

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Looks like #6 will solve this issue.

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the problem happens because mate-menus still ignores the following xdg-specified directory in the user home dir:
~/.config/menus/applications-merged ()

A workaround is to:
cd ~/.config/menus/ ; ln -s applications-merged mate-applications-merged

As for the fix, I suppose it should be similar to the one done recently to make it see the system-wide xdg applications-merged directory.

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For getting this work we need to adopt this code from cinnamon
linuxmint/cinnamon@e41e648
This would create 'mate-applications-merged' in xdg directory and if mate-session is starting the first time also in ~/.config/menus/ .
The question is where we add this code?
mate-menu or mate-session?
I'm willing to prepare a PR but i don't know which package and file in code is the right place.
Here i need your help Stefano.

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Hello toghether!

I'm another Fedora Packager / Developer like @NiceandGently. He asked me on this issue. For me POV the cinnamon-code mentioned would do the trick, although this is a vile hack. Placing a symlink in $HOME/.config is less problematic than introducing some scratch-written code which additionally parses applications-merged. In my opinion this sniplet should be added into mate-menu. That seems to be more semanticly correct, since the issue discussed here affects mate-menu and not the session itself.

Cheers,
besser82

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@NiceandGently: the best way (imho) if we add the Cinnamon's setup_merge_dir_symlink() fuction to matemenu-tree.c file, and call this function in resolve_default_merge_dirs().

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Is this still a problem?

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@NiceandGently: the best way (imho) if we add the Cinnamon's setup_merge_dir_symlink() fuction to matemenu-tree.c file, and call this function in resolve_default_merge_dirs().

@rezso
Any chance of a pull request for this?

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@raveit65
#55

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Anyone around here who use wine and can test if this PR works?
Maybe on gentoo?
@joakim-tjernlund

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Mail me a patch for MATE 1.18 and I will test it

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mail ????, simply add .patch to PR link in browsers :-)
https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/mate-desktop/mate-menus/pull/55.patch

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Ahh, how I have looked for that, why do they not have a button for that :(
Can you do something similar on any commit already in the repo?

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yes, it works on all commits on github
.diff or .patch

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Good :)

Anyhow, patch installed and after logout/login I see:

cd ~.config/menus/
ls -ld *merged
drwx------ 2 jocke users 41 Jun 20 11:56 applications-merged/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jocke users 45 Aug 16 17:38 mate-applications-merged -> /home/jocke/.config/menus/applications-merged/

So it works although I would have expect a relative symlink

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Could we have this in 1.18 too?
Also, it would be nice if you could look out MATE 1.18 branches and release accumulated
commits

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I did already release atril-1.18.1 yesterday.
And yes, i will push that to 1.18 branch + a new point release for mate-menus.
And wine menu entries are there?

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I wonder, should MATE run xdg-user-dirs-update automatically too?

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I don't you Wine, sorry. I just stumbled over a Gentoo bug that pointed to this
bug so I wanted to know if this was fixed.

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I have this in autostart here

[rave@mother ~]$ cat /home/rave/.config/autostart/user-dirs-update-gtk.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update
Name=User folders update

Install by

[root@mother rave]# dnf provides /etc/xdg/autostart/user-dirs-update-gtk.desktop
Letzte Prüfung auf abgelaufene Metadaten: vor 0:04:06 am Mi 16 Aug 2017 17:53:07 CEST.
xdg-user-dirs-gtk-0.10-10.fc26.x86_64 : Gnome integration of special directories
Quelle      : @System

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That is xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update, not xdg-user-dirs-update, which I think is different

Gentoo has some funky xinitrc.d file:

cat 10-user-dirs-update-mate
#!/bin/sh

# Create various XDG directories, and write ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, etc.
# That file is read by glib to get XDG_PICTURES_DIR, etc

if [ "$DESKTOP_SESSION" = "mate" ]; then
	if type xdg-user-dirs-update >/dev/null 2>&1; then
		xdg-user-dirs-update
	fi
fi

I wonder if that should be inside MATE instead.

BTW, would be great if you could release a new mate-themes too, I want to see
if yelp scroll fix will help Evolution too, the horizontal scrollbar if not drawn there either.

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@raveit65
what do you think, this condition is needed?
https://github.com/rezso/mate-menus/commit/16f58f797ddeebb0c5a1f701034b8838a927cea2

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Let's hear what package maintainer thinks?
@XRevan86
Can you handle this PR please?

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Okay, after installing Zuma's revenge with wine:

rezso@papi:~/.config$ ls -1 -R ~/.config/menus
/home/rezso/.config/menus:
applications-merged
mate-applications-merged

/home/rezso/.config/menus/applications-merged:
'wine-Programs-PopCap Games-Zuma'''s Revenge!-Play Zuma'''s Revenge!.menu'
'wine-Programs-PopCap Games-Zuma'''s Revenge!-Uninstall Zuma'''s Revenge!.menu'
'wine-Programs-PopCap Games-Zuma'''s Revenge!-View Readme.menu'
'wine-Programs-PopCap Games-Zuma'''s Revenge!-Visit PopCap.com.menu'
xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu

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merged 923a0d9

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