xfce upgrade kills xfce menus

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Zhihao Yuan <lichray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Zhihao Yuan <lichray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, neither 'portmaster garcon' nor 'portmaster -r garcon'
>>>>> made
>>>>> any difference here.
>>>>
>>>> I don't use portmaster, so I don't know whether these command can
>>>> *force* update a package. However, for portupgrade, a --force option
>>>> is enough to do so. I met the same problem, and I have fixed it with
>>>> an *force* update.
>>>
>>> 'portmaster -r garcon' is like 'portupgrade -rf garcon'.
>>>
>>
>> First, check whether you have the file
>> /usr/local/etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu
>> If you don't have that, reinstall garcon.
>>
>> If you have the file, the menu should work, but! The xfce4 upstream
>> has a problem in their new menu architecture: the application menu
>> only looks for .desktop files at .local/share/applications. So, if you
>> see only a few entities in your *working* application menu, copy all
>> .desktop files under /usr/local/share/applications to user
>> applications directory, or just ln -s the whole directory. So far, I
>> found no other way to solve this. If someone knows more, please reply
>> this thread.
>>
>> --
>> Zhihao Yuan
>> The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
>>
>
> OK. This problem has been solved.
>
> In the previous version, xfce4's script, startxfce4 requires a patch
> to work, which corrects the XDG_DATA_DIRS. In 4.8, this patch is not
> needed -- but since it was added as a post-patch command in the
> Makefile of the port, no one noticed that. And the command causes the
> problem. Now comment out the port-patch part of the file
> /usr/ports/sysutils/xfce4-utils/Makefile, and rebuild this port, then
> both icons and menus works.
>
> If you know who manages this port, please forward this mail to him. Thx.
>
> --
> Zhihao Yuan
> The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
>

I don't think that is the complete solution because I don't use
startxfce4 (See thread in ports) my .xsession (until I fixed as
described in that thread) was (yes only 1 line):
    xfce4-session