Re: update-menus silently failing with Gnome?

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 19:55 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> I can see that update-menus is run during the dpkg install and I tried
> running it again manually.
> 
> I can even find the .desktop file for Gnome after update-menus has run,
> it looks OK
> 
> However, the item just doesn't appear in the menu, even after logging
> out and rebooting

GNOME uses .desktop files, and (in jessie and sid) does not use the
Debian menu at all; see #694356.

Regards,

Adam