Cannot create new menu items or restore system configuration in Alacarte

[Benjamin Xiao]

The following operations do not work in Alacarte in Saucy:
1.) Adding a new item (nothing appears when clicking okay)
2.) Adding a new menu (nothing appears when clicking okay)
3.) Restoring system configuration (does nothing, i.e. deleted menu items do not come back)

This is a regression from Raring.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: alacarte 3.10.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 17 17:18:33 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-17 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: alacarte
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Bladeforce (adec2010)]

Happens to me too. Since upgrading to Saucy all my custom shortcuts have been thrown into the "Other" folder and previously made folders have disappeared!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jacek (pjacekm)]

Same here! Cannot add new menu items and all custom shortcuts landed in "Other" folder.

[Roger John (roger-john)]

For me, drag&drop (moving items between categories) is also not working. On starting, stderr gives:

(alacarte:9493): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_closure: assertion 'gtk_accel_group_from_accel_closure (accel_closure) != NULL' failed

(alacarte:9493): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_closure: assertion 'gtk_accel_group_from_accel_closure (accel_closure) != NULL' failed

[Roger John (roger-john)]

Ok, some investigation reveals that drag&drop was dropped in 12.10. I had 12.04 running prior, with menus already setup, and upgraded later thus not noticing this. So this would be a separate issue.
Besides that, i checked that alacarte actually creates at least item- and folder-entries in ~/.local/share/, but i don't know where to look for ordering-configuration, i.e. what stores information about which item goes where. Maybe the problem is there.
Still, i wonder why drag&drop vanished. How shall I move items where i want them? Or am i not supposed to do that? Is menu structure now fixed?

[Dominic Chambers (dominic-chambers)]

I consider this a serious bug as Alacarte is the only way to add graphical launchers in Ubuntu, and before I found that bug I just kept adding more and more launcher for the same thing (hoping to fix an issue in the first launcher I created), but of course it never helped.

Are people also finding that the items they create don't keep the icon that's associated with them? I've since moved to Gnome Ubuntu 13.10 because of this bug (before I found this issue), and don't know if that's an additional error that's happening only in Gnome Ubuntu that I should raise separately.

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

Is this still problem in newer Ubuntu versions?