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

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

here is a screenshot .

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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?

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..

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

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.

@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)

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.

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

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.

Confirming this issue with Ubuntu LTS 12.04.1, 32bits

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

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

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'.