Comment 96 for bug 406626

I would suggest *against* adding "the" for this. Menu items are not about forming grammatically correct complete sentences.

HIG specifies not to overuse these http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/grammar.html.en

Also, no other menu items use "the"/"a" unnecessarily.
Eg: nautilus File menu > is Create Folder , Create Document. and everywhere else in all applications it is the same pattern.

Adding "the" here would mean bringing in a new inconsistency.

But, if the British think they invented English, then... Oh! wait! :-)