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
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
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
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
Same with Ubuntu 13.10 64bit upgraded from 13.04.
Editing the menus in gnome-panel or alternative application launchers/applets
doesn't work as well as it should. There is no easy and obvious way (e.g. just
dragdrop) to move the unnecessarily spammy new categories (Sundry, System
Settings
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: alacarte (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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This issue finds its roots in a problem with the creation and deletion
of Applications Menu (aka Main Menu) entries which is explained on:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/1245300
Comment #2 there explains the motivation for the present submission in
greater detail. It
I can confirm that this bug exists. :-S
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245315
Title:
alacarte fails to write a proper Categories=; line to .desktop
files
To
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
