[JDS] [OpenIndiana Distribution - Bug #4100] GNOME panel and menus mostly empty (151a8)

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Issue #4100 has been updated by Richard PALO.


Just noticed that the new manpage has some useful information, as well...
solaris-desktop/manpages/man1/gnome-panel.1

in particular

_RBAC can be configured to allow users  access  to  a  Rights
Profile.   If  a  program  can  be run with a Rights Profile
associated with the user, then the program is made available
to  the  user  and is run by the GNOME Panel with pfexec(1).
RBAC can be configured to allow users access to a role.   If
not  using  Trusted  Extensions  and if a program can be run
with a user or role the user can assume, then the program is
made  available  to  the  user and is run by the GNOME Panel
with gksu(1).  *Programs that  are  not  explicitly  assigned
security  attributes  in Rights Profiles are not filtered by
the GNOME panel.*  If using  Trusted  Extensions  or  if  the
user's  shell  is  a pfexec(1) enabled shell like pfsh(1) or
pfbash(1), then the panel runs all programs  not  explicitly
assigned   security   attributes  in  Rights  Profiles  with
pfexec(1).  Running with pfexec(1) ensures that  the  user's
profile  assignments  apply to all child processes, as well.
Users can also be disallowed from running programs by confi-
guring RBAC.  For example, by using the "Stop" profile._

_When processing GNOME Panel menu and  launchers,  it  determines
the executable by checking the associated application
or launcher desktop file.  The GNOME Panel checks  the  
executables  associated  with  the Exec and TryExec keys of the
desktop file to see if they are associated with  a  profile.
If  both are associated with a profile, the GNOME Panel uses
the profile associated with the Exec key.   When  processing
GNOME  Panel applets, it determines the executable by checking 
the applet factory's bonobo server  file  and  uses  the
value  specified  in the "location" element of the factory's
bonobo server configuration file to see if it is  associated
with a profile._

I guess in summary, there do seem to be some missing parts as 
it should not be necessary to add any particular rights/profiles 
for simple non-privileged programs.
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Bug #4100: GNOME panel and menus mostly empty (151a8)
https://www.illumos.org/issues/4100

Author: Gordon Ross
Status: In Progress
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Milan Jurik
Category: Desktop (JDS)
Target version: 
Difficulty: Medium
Tags: 


After an upgrade from 151a7 to 151a8 (and thanks for the work there, btw:)
all my gnome panel launchers are missing.  The "Oi" start button is there but
most of the menu items normally found there are missing too.

I booted my previous BE and everything came back.
Any other data I should gather?



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