I can confirm the same behaviour (new items appear in "Other") on Fedora
20 with XFCE4:
xfce4-panel-4.10.1-3.fc20.x86_64
alacarte-3.10.0-1.fc20.noarch
gnome-menus-3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64
The trouble I am having is that the .desktop file is created by alacarte
but the ~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu file does not seem to be
updated in the way I would expect. For instance I create a new Item in
the Games menu in alacarte, the generated .desktop file looks like this:
cat ~/.local/share/applications/alacarte-made-1.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=fheroes2
Terminal=false
Name=HOMM2
Exec=/home/dan/Games/fheroes2/fheroes2.x86_64
Type=Application
Icon=/home/dan/Games/fheroes2/image/fheroes2_32x32.png
Which is all correct, but I don't see an entry in xfce-applications.menu:
<Menu>
<Name>Games</Name>
<Directory>xfce-games.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Game</Category>
</Include>
</Menu>
If I manually edit the file I can add in the .desktop entry and it will appear
in the Games menu correctly:
<Menu>
<Name>Games</Name>
<Directory>xfce-games.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Game</Category>
<Filename>alacarte-made-1.desktop</Filename>
</Include>
</Menu>
I hope the above explanation is clear as this behaviour is a bit
puzzling to me.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245315
Title:
alacarte fails to write a proper "Categories=<>;" line to .desktop
files
Status in “alacarte” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
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.
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