Rearranging Items Causes Duplicates

[naesk]

Binary package hint: alacarte

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

Whilst rearranging the menu for a more logical organisation of "Sytem -> Preferences", I've noticed that it has caused duplicates of the rearranged items in the "Application -> Other" category.

As an observation, the whole editing process in Alacarte does feel kind of sluggish and desperately requires improving from a usability perspective.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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[naesk (naesk)]

I discovered this when I organised my menus into logical categories instead of the menus been monolithic.

To reproduce try the following;

Create a new menu called Multimedia in System > Preferences

Then copy over the following items from within Preferences into the new Multimedia menu;

Sound
Volume Control
Multimedia Systems Selector

Once these have taken effect the same items should then appear in the Applications > Other menu

This also impacts in the Open With context menu, by duplicating entries for apps that can be used to open file MIME types.

[Safety0ff (safety0ff)]

I'm seconding this bug,
Steps to reproduce:

Create a new menu item within the "Programming" menu called "Version Control"
Drag and drop some items within Programming onto the folder shown in the left pane.
There will now be 3 copies of the item:
1 in Version Control
2 in Programming

If the item was disabled before moving, the newly created copy will be enabled.

Notes:
-It works properly if you're moving an item from Programming to another Primary menu,
i.e. From Education to Science, or Programming to System Tools, etc.

-If you delete the copy within the original folder, the item in the subfolder will also get removed.

This bug makes it very difficult to organise the menus.

[Antti Kaihola (akaihola)]

This issue exists also in Lucid with alacarte 0.12.4-1ubuntu.

[Antti Kaihola (akaihola)]

There is now a patch for this issue in the upstream bug tracker:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601514#c3