Menu editor does not add items or menus

[Simon Birch]

I've installed UbuntuStudio 13.10, and I'm using the default menu.

Step to recreate;
  1. I right click on the menu button, then select Panel > Panel Preferences.
  2. Select the Items tab
  3. Ensure Applications Menu is selected and click the edit button
  4. In the window that appears, click the 'Edit Menu' button - the menu editor appears
  5. Click 'New Menu' and enter any details, then click on 'OK'. The menu does not appear anywhere
  6. Click on the main menu - there is no new menu in the top level list
  7. Click 'New Item' and enter any details, then click 'OK'. The new item does not appear anywhere.
  8. Click on the main menu - there is no new item in the top level list
  9. Select any item in the list of menu items
10. Click on 'New Separator'
11. After a short pause a new separator appears under the item selected at step 9
12. Click on the main menu - the separator is shown in the expected position

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Len Ovens (len-ovenwerks)]

I can see that this does nothing as you say. I am not sure what it should do though. I would think it should create a *.menu file somewhere like in .config/menus. or perhaps whereever the click on the folder icon puts it. This does not seem to happen. Have you tried this on xubuntu (stock xfce)? Once the menu file is created, I would not expect it to replace the main menu but to be usable as a second menu on the same panel or bottom panel.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package alacarte - 3.11.91-1

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alacarte (3.11.91-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload.

  [ Barry Warsaw ]
  * d/control.in: Remove unnecessary Build-Depends on python-support.
    (dh_python2 is actually used anyway, closes: #732397)

  [ Dmitry Shachnev ]
  * New upstream bugfix release (closes: #742053, LP: #1298068).
    - Fixes issues with items/menus creation (closes: #731458,
      LP: #1235994, #1244087, #1259717).
    - Help button removed (LP: #1249603).
  * Use the man page provided by upstream.

 -- Andreas Henriksson <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:28:39 +0200