The "Categories" field is only one way that the menu specification decide what subfolder of the menu it will end up with. The menu spec says that ~/.config/menus/applications.menu is what decides where menus go.
Alacarte is a menu spec compliant editor. If XFCE does not respect the menu spec, it's their bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245315 Title: alacarte fails to write a proper "Categories=<>;" line to .desktop files Status in “alacarte” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When creating a new menu entry in the Applications Menu of Xubuntu using the Alacarte Menu Editor (alacarte 3.10.0-1) then alacarte does not enable the writing of a "Categories=<>;" attribute in the new .desktop file created in /home/<>/local/share/applications/. Without a recognized and meaningful "Categories=<>;" attribute, the new menu entry is relegated by default to the non-specific "Other" menu category in the Applications Menu of Xubuntu. Moving the newly-created menu entry in question to a more meaningful Applications Menu category (such as, eg, "Applications", "Office", "Systems", etc) by dragging and dropping then fails in alacarte due to the very absence of any "Categories=<>;" attribute in the .desktop file. Instead, First, when creating a new menu entry in, for example, "Applications", then alacarte should write a corresponding "Categories=<>;" attribute line in the newly-made .desktop file. Second, when dragging and dropping the newly-created menu entry in alacarte from, for example, "Applications" to, for instance, "System", then alacarte should amend the "Categories=<>;" attribute line in the .desktop file accordingly. Note 1: If alacarte cannot do these things automatically, then it should at least allow the user to choose the Application Menu category, say, from a drop-down list, when creating or editing a menu entry, and write this choice to the corresponding .desktop file in the form of a suitable "Categories=<>;" attribute line. Note 2: Resolving this issue by manually editing .desktop files, of course, wholly defeats the very raison d'être of Menu Editor programs such as alacarte. -- System: xubuntu 13.10 32-bit fully up-to-date To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/1245315/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
