Hi Ara, When I tried with Pidgin, I noticed the first menu item (which is in default system menu) was listed as 'mnuPidginInternetMessenger' and the one under indicator-applet is displayed as 'mnuPidginInternetMessenger1', is that fine ? So, you can use them as: doesmenuitemexist('frmTopExpandedEdgePanel', 'mnuPidginInternetMessenger') doesmenuitemexist('frmTopExpandedEdgePanel', 'mnuPidginInternetMessenger1') Drawback here is, you will not be able to use with hierarchy. Thanks Nagappan <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Ara Pulido <<a href="mailto:ara@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ara@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello all, I am trying to write a test to check that if a menu item exists or not in the top panel. The problem is that the name is exactly the same that another one in the top panel that always exists. This is the structure: First match (always there): TOP PANEL -----> Applications ------------> Internet -------------------> Evolution Mail Second match (not always there and the one we want to check in the test): TOP PANEL ------> Embedded componet (embindicator-applet) ---------------> Evolution Mail The problem is that using doesmenuitemexists always returns 1, because it matches with the first one. Using invokemenu does not help, as it invokes the context menu of the embedded component, not the normal menu. Any ideas how to make this difference? Thanks, Ara. _______________________________________________ LDTP-dev mailing list <a href="mailto:LDTP-dev@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">LDTP-dev@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/ldtp-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/ldtp-dev</a> </blockquote></div> -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - <a href="http://ldtp.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">http://ldtp.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://nagappanal.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://nagappanal.blogspot.com</a>