[Bug 1245315] Re: alacarte fails to write a proper Categories=; line to .desktop files

2013-12-02 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
Again, the Categories=; key is not what decides what apps go where, according to the menu-spec. Alacarte writes to ~/.config/menus/applications.menu or similar, which should describe any user-configured overrides to the menus. If XFCE's menu implementation does not support this format, then it is

[Bug 1245300] Re: alacarte does not delete deleted application menu entries

2013-10-29 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
From the menu specification: Hidden should have been called Deleted. It means the user deleted (at his level) something that was present (at an upper level, e.g. in the system dirs). It's strictly equivalent to the .desktop file not existing at all, as far as that user is concerned. This can also

[Bug 1245315] Re: alacarte fails to write a proper Categories=; line to .desktop files

2013-10-29 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
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

Re: [Bug 1079953] Re: Main Menu Editor alacarte is Completely Broken in xubuntu 12.10

2013-03-03 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
The menu specification, which Unity follows, existed since long before Unity was in the planning stages. Furthermore, the Main Menu application used to edit menus is currently maintained by me, and I am not a Canonical employee. They do not pay me any money, and I have no power over Canonical's

[Bug 1079953] Re: Main Menu Editor alacarte is Completely Broken in xubuntu 12.10

2012-11-16 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
As the upstream maintainer of alacarte, if you have any of these crashes, I'd love to see them. I do not know of The editing bug may be caused not respecting $XDG_MENU_PREFIX. http://git.gnome.org/browse/alacarte/commit/?id=a4db6799f41947b5cd08231e77d41c561d94170a This commit should fix it.

[Bug 1057600] Re: alacarte crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in save(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 307-315: ordinal not in range(128)

2012-11-16 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
Pushed a more comprehensive fix to git master. Thanks! Not sure what flags I'm supposed to set in Launchpad. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to alacarte in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1057600 Title: