ok, I can confirm that my own ~/.config/menus/applications.menu existing but being currently empty indeed leads to alacarte terminating.
I wish to report a possible cause though for the emptiness. Topic: system defaults changed via the context menu of the nautilus file manager. Namely, I discovered that in the aftermath of my installing 7z (the windows version of which I had become especially enamored of during my days as Win98SE user) apparently inadvertently (?) the system default for the procedure with which normally directories were to be opened was changed from "open ordner" to "7z". (Similarly, I discovered the "normal" way to handle profiles and other simple text files had inadvertently become changed across the board from using a simple text editor to using swriter of the OpenOffice.org office software. ) As an Ubuntu8.10 user, I have routinely had admin rights. Sudo has been ever again necessary to perform some actions. Not so within nautilus' context menu. Why do I mention this within this context? Well, not only was that applications menu empty, but the Places links within the main menu (personal directory, Desktop etc) were for some time dysfunctional at my PC. After I discovered that bit about 7z and had changed the normal usage in opening directories back to "open directory", then suddenly, those Places links immediately worked normally again. Might not the malfunctioning of the opening of directories during the time when 7z was unhappily as the system wide norm associated with opening directories have been the cause (or part of it) of the above- described emptying of the applications menu? For if alacarte tries to open the directory with some normal editor with its own success / failure flagging and instead that attempt results in 7z getting called, wouldn't that be a problem for alacarte? My vote: alacarte should be augmented with some normal non disastrous reaction to such a mishap. Also 2x Questions: (1) I think that the system defaults should not be always and for all time changed for all like type files when I use the "opening with" option of the context menu within nautilus to choose a application with which to open some file, but only when that be explicitly desired by the user ie admin. Should I or someone suggest such a change to the nautilus software? (2) Am I wrong to under Ubuntu be running around all the time as an admin group member? (sorry, I'm a former Win98SE user and noob at Ubuntu) ** Attachment added: "Bildschirmfoto-Oeffnen mit.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18007220/Bildschirmfoto-Oeffnen%20mit.png -- Alacarte emptied my Applications menu list. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61340 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
