Hi,
I downloaded alacarte 3.6.1-0 from
http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/all/alacarte/download. Then remove
alacarte 3.10 from my Xubuntu 13.10 using Synaptic. Then, using GDebi, I
installed the 3.6.1 release. And finally, I used Synaptic again to block
alacarte from upgrading. Since there is no fix yet for the package, this
solution works fine. ;-)
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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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