Comment 1 for bug 1079953

As the upstream maintainer of alacarte, if you have any of these crashes, I'd love to see them. I do not know of

The editing bug may be caused not respecting $XDG_MENU_PREFIX.

http://git.gnome.org/browse/alacarte/commit/?id=a4db6799f41947b5cd08231e77d41c561d94170a

This commit should fix it. Please try this patch and tell me if it works.

Replacing the gnome-panel desktop item editor has been on my list for a little while, but I'm swamped with other tasks so far. I'll try to hack something up this weekend.