Re: Menu entries not appearing

[Alessandro Dentella <sandro@e-den.it>]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 02:33:19PM +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 03/09/2009 alle 13.42 +0200, Alessandro Dentella ha
> scritto:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   I tried to add a menu entry for application 'sqledit', but the entry does not
> >   appear if I use standard menu entry in debian as:
> > 
> > ?package(python-sqlkit):needs="X11" section="Applications/Office"\
> >   title="sqledit" command="/usr/bin/sqledit"
> > 
> >   it gets placed in /usr/share/menu/python-sqlkit but it does not show in the
> >   menu. In postinst scipt I correctly see:
> > 
> >     if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ -x "`which update-menus 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
> > 	    update-menus
> >     fi
> > 
> >   It *does* appear correctly if I place a sqlkit.desktop in
> >   /usr/share/applications. 
> > 
> >   I'm doing something wrong with the menu entry?
> >   Is it ok to use only sqlkit.desktop?
> 
> update-menus "generate[s] Debian menu system"; it takes care only of the
> Debian menu (which - notice - is usually not installed in Ubuntu ;-).

thanks,  that's what I missed.

*:-)