Comment 9 for bug 258466

I'm seeing this same problem in part in 8.10, and saw it in 8.04. I'm running on x86, with alacarte version 0.11.6-0ubuntu2. I have full sudo privs here (I'm the only user), but I'm not prompted at any point.

Here's what doesn't work:
- In the Applications menu, I cannot enable items (submenus) that are not already enabled. I've tried to enable both Debian and Programming, and they untick themselves after a few seconds or further interaction. They never go from the small-italic font to the larger upright font of active items.

Everything else seems to operate just fine, though my memory is that it was worse before I upgraded from 8.04. If there's been no action on this front in another week or two, I'll have convenient access to an 8.04 machine on which to test further, to help track down what this comes from.