Package: gnome-shell Version: 3.2.2.1-1 Severity: normal My gnome3/gnome-shell experience has not been very good so far. I have installed gnome-shell on several up to date wheezy computers. On all of them, the Applications menu is unusable because it is so slow to show any icons. On some of the systems, it takes several minutes to show anything when going to the Activities and clicking on Applications. I have noticed that there are a lot of duplicate icons and there are also a lot of icons for applications that are not installed anymore. I don't know if all of this cruft is causing the slowness or not. I can use the Main Menu application to clean some of this up. I have found that the duplicates and uninstalled items are all in the "Other" menu. When I uncheck the item it does go away. I cannot delete the item line though. I try to right click and select delete on the uninstalled items but nothing happens. My wheezy install is clean in that I do not have any orphaned packages installed. Where is the Other menu item picking up all of this old junk and is there a way to clear it out. I only install applications using Synaptic or apt-get directly. An example of items showing up that are not installed anymore is Emacs 22 which hasn't been installed for a long time. Something is not being handled correctly with the menu items when gnome-shell is being installed making the Activities->Applications method of selecting applications to start unusable. Due to the unusability of the Applications menu, I have gone to opening everything using Synapse which I actually like. The typical user though probably will not do that and consider gnome-shell unusable. Which it is if it takes several minutes to show the application icons to start a program.
-- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.1.5.111222 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.10.0-3 ii gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 0.6.15-2 ii gir1.2-atk-1.0 2.2.0-2 ii gir1.2-caribou-1.0 0.4.1-2 ii gir1.2-clutter-1.0 1.8.2-2 ii gir1.2-cogl-1.0 1.8.2-1 ii gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 1.8.2-1 ii gir1.2-folks-0.6 0.6.6-1 ii gir1.2-freedesktop 1.31.1-1 ii gir1.2-gconf-2.0 2.32.4-1 ii gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 2.24.0-2 ii gir1.2-gee-1.0 0.6.1-3 ii gir1.2-gkbd-3.0 3.2.0-1 ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.31.1-1 ii gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 3.2.0.1-2 ii gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 3.2.1-1 ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.2.3-1 ii gir1.2-json-1.0 0.14.2-1 ii gir1.2-mutter-3.0 3.2.2-1 ii gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 0.9.2.0-2 ii gir1.2-pango-1.0 1.29.4-2 ii gir1.2-polkit-1.0 0.104-1 ii gir1.2-soup-2.4 2.34.3-1 ii gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 0.16.2-1 ii gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2 0.2.12-1 ii gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 0.9.15-1 ii gjs 1.30.0-3 ii gnome-bluetooth 3.2.1-1 ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.2.2-1 ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.2.2-2 ii gnome-shell-common 3.2.2.1-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.2.0-2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.2.0-2 ii libc6 2.13-24 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.10.2-6.2 ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6.2 ii libcamel-1.2-29 3.2.2-1 ii libcanberra0 0.28-3 ii libclutter-1.0-0 1.8.2-2 ii libcogl-pango0 1.8.2-1 ii libcogl5 1.8.2-1 ii libcroco3 0.6.2-2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.16-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.98-1 ii libdrm2 2.4.30-1 ii libebook-1.2-12 3.2.2-1 ii libecal-1.2-10 3.2.2-1 ii libedataserver-1.2-15 3.2.2-1 ii libedataserverui-3.0-1 3.2.2-1 ii libffi5 3.0.10-3 ii libfolks25 0.6.6-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-3.1 ii libfreetype6 2.4.8-1 ii libgconf2-4 2.32.4-1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.24.0-2 ii libgee2 0.6.1-3 ii libgirepository-1.0-1 1.31.1-1 ii libgjs0b [libgjs0-libmozjs185-1.0] 1.30.0-3 ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.11.2-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-6 ii libgnome-desktop-3-2 3.2.1-3 ii libgnome-keyring0 3.2.2-2 ii libgnome-menu-3-0 3.2.0.1-2 ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.35-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.2.3-1 ii libical0 0.44-3 ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 0.14.2-1 ii libmozjs185-1.0 1.8.5-1.0.0+dfsg-3 ii libmutter0 3.2.2-1 ii libnm-glib4 0.9.2.0-2 ii libnm-util2 0.9.2.0-2 ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.9-1 ii libnss3-1d 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1 ii libpango1.0-0 1.29.4-2 ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.104-1 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.104-1 ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 1.0-4 ii libpulse0 1.0-4 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.34.3-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.9-2 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-1 ii libtelepathy-glib0 0.16.2-1 ii libtelepathy-logger2 0.2.12-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-4 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.3-2 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.3-2 ii libxext6 2:1.3.0-3 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0-4 ii libxi6 2:1.4.5-1 ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-7 ii python 2.7.2-10 ii telepathy-mission-control-5 1:5.10.1-2 Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends: ii gnome-contacts 3.2.2-2 ii gnome-control-center 1:3.2.2-2 ii gnome-session-fallback 3.2.1-1 ii gnome-themes-standard 3.2.1-2 gnome-shell suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org