It should be possible to delete entries in MenuLibre

[Adalbert Hanßen]

This bug report pertains to Menulibre version 2.1.3. I first thought it was a bug of xfce4, therefore I reported the bug first in https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15905.

After installing various versions of LibreOffice and LibreOfficeDev, my start menu had become very ample with starters for those many versions, which I do not need any longer. Therefore I wanted to delete some of them, preferrably all starters belonging to one version as a group by marking one and extending my selection.

Also there was one entry, which I had derived from an existing one to try out starting LibreOfficeDev under other conditions. I had changed the command-part of that. But it turned out that it did not work. Even after returning that entry to its original state, the unchanged one still popped up although Menulibre still showed me my restored version. This is definitely a bug.

The maze could be relieved only by the help of the discussion in the xfce4-bugzilla: I finally deleted the file representing the entry in my ~/.local/share/applications/. When looking at this directory with Thunar, I saw that this file was flagged as not trustworthy. The German warning message was:

"Die Schreibtischdatei »menulibre-libreofficedev-6.desktop« befindet sich an einem unsicheren Ort und ist nicht als ausführbar gekennzeichnet. Vertrauen Sie dem Programm nicht, klicken Sie auf abbrechen.

Exec=..."

where ... was the command which I had entered for the starter in menulibre.

Unfortunately the trash can is greyed out in menulibre, so I can't delete entries which I do not want any longer. I had to follow the awkward way which was shown to me in the other discussion (luckily there was a way to get rid of those starters).

The other alternative from the other discussion, which is a bit quicker, is to disable the display of unwanted starters. But that's not a good remedy because in the long run I fear my system becomes unnecessarily convoluted and debugging more complex.

*The trash can should not be greyed out in menulibre.*

*It should be possible to mark sequences of starters to delete them like those groups of starters for the various LibreOffice versions which had accumulated in my office section among the starters.*