Gnome Applications menu gone !

[linux_makers]

Hey guys,

I was missing around with Gnome Panels, and i have 2 problems now, Using Fedora 11.

the first one is that the "Applications" menu has no entries, clicking it shows nothing !, how can i restore the sub-menus that were located under Applications ?

The second problem is that right clicking bar and choosing "Edit menus" doesn't open the application i used to edit the menus with, so i cannot even add the entries manually now ..

What do you suggest ?, i am not so experienced with Gnome so please help me out here

[dmyersturnbull]

Hey, linux_makers.

Did you try removing the panel applet and adding it again?

[linux_makers]

Just tried it but that didn't solve the problem

[Dangermouse]

Hi, try typing alacarte in a terminal to get the menu editor.

[linux_makers]

Running it throws the following:

alacarte
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main
app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 50, in __init__
self.editor = MenuEditor()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 36, in __init__
self.__loadMenus()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 46, in __loadMenus
self.applications.dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(self.applications.path)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 1915, in parse
return expatbuilder.parse(file)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 926, in parse
result = builder.parseFile(fp)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 211, in parseFile
parser.Parse("", True)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0

[linux_makers]

Guys .. any suggestions ?
I think i am missing some python library

[linux_makers]

solved using: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread109883.html#