Moving the server to after the items makes things work better, but I'm curious why it's failing. This is more a test for dbusmenu though which'll have better debug.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/users-service.c b/src/users-service.c
index c3c842f..409a1d0 100644
--- a/src/users-service.c
+++ b/src/users-service.c
@@ -14,13 +14,18 @@ gchar * dummies[] = {
 	"Bob", "Jim", "Alvin", "Mary", NULL
 };
 
-void dummy_users (void) {
+static void
+dummy_users (DbusmenuMenuitem * root) {
 	int count;
 	for (count = 0; dummies[count] != NULL; count++) {
 		DbusmenuMenuitem * mi = dbusmenu_menuitem_new();
+		g_debug("Creating item: %d %s", dbusmenu_menuitem_get_id(mi), dummies[count]);
+		g_debug("\tRoot ID: %d", dbusmenu_menuitem_get_id(root));
 		dbusmenu_menuitem_property_set(mi, "label", dummies[count]);
-		dbusmenu_menuitem_child_append(root_menuitem, mi);
+		dbusmenu_menuitem_child_add_position(root, mi, count);
 	}
+
+	return;
 }
 
 int
@@ -44,6 +49,10 @@ main (int argc, char ** argv)
     }   
 
     root_menuitem = dbusmenu_menuitem_new();
+	g_debug("Root ID: %d", dbusmenu_menuitem_get_id(root_menuitem));
+
+	dummy_users(root_menuitem);
+
     DbusmenuServer * server = dbusmenu_server_new(INDICATOR_USERS_DBUS_OBJECT);
     dbusmenu_server_set_root(server, root_menuitem);