diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/SConscript b/gtk2_ardour/SConscript
index ef0aa37ed2..4479f345ad 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/SConscript
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/SConscript
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ executable = 'ardour.bin'
 
 ardour = gtkardour.Program(target = executable, source = gtkardour_files + extra_sources)
 mtest = gtkardour.Program(target = 'mtest', source = mtest_files)
-itest = gtkardour.Program(target = 'itest', source = itest_files)
+#itest = gtkardour.Program(target = 'itest', source = itest_files)
 
 Default(ardour)
 
@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ if env['NLS']:
 
 env.Alias('install', env.InstallAs(os.path.join(install_prefix, 'bin')+'/ardour', ardour))
 env.Alias('install', env.Install(os.path.join(config_prefix, 'ardour'), 'ardour_ui.rc'))
+env.Alias('install', env.Install(os.path.join(config_prefix, 'ardour'), 'ardour-menus.xml'))
 env.Alias('install', env.Install(os.path.join(install_prefix, 'share/ardour'), 'splash.ppm'))
 env.Alias('install', env.Install(os.path.join(install_prefix, 'share/ardour/glade'), glade_files))
 
diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/actions.cc b/gtk2_ardour/actions.cc
index 4cb573eee0..8a5928c3f8 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/actions.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/actions.cc
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 
 #include <pbd/error.h>
 
+#include <ardour/ardour.h>
+
 #include "actions.h"
 
 using namespace std;
@@ -48,9 +50,11 @@ ActionManager::init ()
 	ui_manager = UIManager::create ();
 
 	try {
-		ui_manager->add_ui_from_file ("ardour-menus.xml");
+	  ui_manager->add_ui_from_file (ARDOUR::find_config_file("ardour-menus.xml"));
 	} catch (Glib::MarkupError& err) {
 		error << "badly formatted UI definition file" << endmsg;
+	} catch (...) {
+	  std::cerr << "ardour action xml file not found" << endl;
 	}
     
 }
diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/glade_path.cc b/gtk2_ardour/glade_path.cc
index e922ec2e13..7ccdcc3d97 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/glade_path.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/glade_path.cc
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 #include <glibmm/fileutils.h>
 #include <glibmm/miscutils.h>
 
+#include <ardour/ardour.h>
+
 #include "i18n.h"
 #include "glade_path.h"
 
@@ -29,31 +31,30 @@
 std::string
 GladePath::path(const std::string& glade_file)
 {
-	std::string user_glade_dir = Glib::getenv(X_("ARDOUR_GLADE_PATH"));
-	std::string full_path;
-	
-	if(user_glade_dir != "") {
-		full_path = Glib::build_filename(user_glade_dir, glade_file);
-		if(Glib::file_test(full_path, Glib::FILE_TEST_EXISTS)) return full_path;
-	}
-	
-	// check if file ~/.ardour/glade/glade_file exists.
-	std::vector<std::string> path;
-	path.push_back(Glib::get_home_dir());
-	path.push_back(X_(".ardour")); // define as a constant somewhere?
-	path.push_back(X_("glade"));
-	path.push_back(glade_file);
-	full_path = Glib::build_filename(path);
-	
-	// temporary debugging
-	std::cout << "Path to glade file" << full_path << std::endl;
-	
-	if(Glib::file_test(full_path, Glib::FILE_TEST_EXISTS)) return full_path;
-	
-	/*
-	  If for some wierd reason the system wide glade file
-	  doesn't exist libglademm will throw an exception 
-	  so don't bother testing if it exists etc.
-	*/
-	return Glib::build_filename(GLADEPATH, glade_file);
+    std::string user_glade_dir = Glib::getenv(X_("ARDOUR_GLADE_PATH"));
+    std::string full_path;
+    
+    if(!user_glade_dir.empty()) {
+        Glib::build_filename(user_glade_dir, glade_file);
+        if(Glib::file_test(full_path, Glib::FILE_TEST_EXISTS)) return full_path;
+    }
+
+    full_path = ARDOUR::find_data_file(Glib::build_filename("glade",
+                                                            glade_file));
+                                                                
+    // temporary debugging
+    std::cerr << "Path to glade file" << full_path << std::endl;
+    
+    return full_path;
 }
+
+/*
+  Local Variables:
+  mode:c++
+  c-file-style:"stroustrup"
+  c-file-offsets:((innamespace . 0)(inline-open . 0)(case-label . +))
+  indent-tabs-mode:nil
+  fill-column:99
+  End:
+*/
+// vim: filetype=cpp:expandtab:shiftwidth=4:tabstop=8:softtabstop=4:encoding=utf-8:textwidth=99 :