I have just upgraded to alacarte-3.11.91-1.fc21 (installed locally by
downloading the RPM from the Rawhide repository) and the issue is now
fixed. It seems the solution is just to update alacarte to the latest
version. From the alacarte 3.11.91 changelog:
Changes:
Drop Help button
Ensure items have valid Exec
Add a man page
Make Restore button work again
Fix createing menus
Fix creating items
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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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System: xubuntu 13.10 32-bit fully up-to-date
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