alacarte crashes when trying to move icon with / in name

Bug #222985 reported by NickMoore
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alacarte (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: alacarte

alacarte version: 0.11.5-0ubuntu1
Ubuntu 8.04

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open alacarte
2. Find (or create) an item with a / in it's name
3. Attempt to drag it to another folder

Ubuntu will then catch a crash report. This is constantly reproducible. The traceback from alacarte is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 416, in on_menu_tree_drag_data_received
    self.editor.copyItem(item, new_parent)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 290, in copyItem
    keyfile.write(open(out_path, 'w'))
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/nick/.local/share/applications/KDevelop: C/C++.desktop'

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