the issue was caused by the gedit.desktop to the .local directory, there was some issue with nautilus which is likely to create them, the bug is supposed to be fixed. Closing the bug as rejected since that's not due to gedit, feel free to open a nautilus bug if that still happens with dapper
** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Rejected -- gedit 2.13.90 menu entry doesn't appear on fresh account https://launchpad.net/bugs/31159 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs