I have just encountered this too. Before discovering https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/1241841 I was having trouble getting a icon to appear for the application. I would delete and recreate the entry (accumulating hidden duplicates) with no success. I would then attempt to create my own entry from scratch, which would never show up. It turns out that the hidden entries were preventing the manually created one from being displayed.
-- 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/1245300 Title: alacarte does not delete deleted application menu entries Status in “alacarte” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When a menu entry in the Applications Menu of Xubuntu is deleted using the Alacarte Menu Editor, then alacarte (3.10.0-1) does NOT delete its .desktop file. Instead alacarte writes a new "Hidden=true" line in its .desktop file in /home/<>/local/share/applications/ and it only deletes the entry from the list of menu entries which are shown in alacarte itself. This is wrong. Delete and Hidden are two different things: .desktop files with the attribute "Hidden=true" should be shown in alacarte as unticked menu entries. Further, by failing actually to delete, alacarte populates /home/<>/local/share/applications/ with increasing numbers of obsolete and dysfunctional .desktop entries. These are difficult to identify and delete manually when browsing /home/<>/local/share/applications/, because alacarte gives all .desktop files which it makes non-specific generic names of the type alacarte-made-nn.desktop. -- 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/1245300/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
