Main Menu Editor alacarte is Completely Broken in xubuntu 12.10
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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alacarte (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Precise |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Main Menu Editor alacarte is Completely Broken in xubuntu 12.10
SYSTEM: Fresh install of xubuntu 12.10 (i386) using the official xubuntu .iso image, fully updated as of today.
The 'Main Menu' editor (alacarte) is completely broken in xubuntu 12.10. Changes in the xubuntu Applications Menu made with alacarte are not effected. For example:
-- Ticking/unticking boxes in alacarte does not stick.
-- New menu items created with alacarte are not put in place.
-- Menu items deleted with alacarte remain in place.
-- Moving items from one menu folder to another with alacarte no longer works.
-- .desktop files of any menu item opened (with or without (!) change) in alacarte simply accumulate in /home/[
-- sudo alacarte in a terminal no longer works.
It appears that alacarte is dependent on an item (gnome-
Apart from these bugs, alacarte has limited functionality, it is prone to crashing, and it is awkward to handle. Many of these problems have a very long history and are never properly addressed.
It seems better if the alacarte Applications Menu Editor in xubuntu would be replaced as standard (or at least as an option through the (x)ubuntu repos) by LXMenuEditor (http://
Changed in alacarte (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
As the upstream maintainer of alacarte, if you have any of these crashes, I'd love to see them. I do not know of
The editing bug may be caused not respecting $XDG_MENU_PREFIX.
http:// git.gnome. org/browse/ alacarte/ commit/ ?id=a4db6799f41 947b5cd08231e77 d41c561d94170a
This commit should fix it. Please try this patch and tell me if it works.
Replacing the gnome-panel desktop item editor has been on my list for a little while, but I'm swamped with other tasks so far. I'll try to hack something up this weekend.