Hi Antti Kaihola, This is a clean install of Lucid Alpha 1 (i386) with no updates applied (I'm avoiding a partial upgrade) but with some various applications installed. All directory files do end in the .directory extension.
However, you have helped me find the problem. None of the applications (except for the ones I have added entries for) have the *.desktop extension in the folder ~/.local/share/applications . $$$ ls /home/james/.local/share/applications alacarte-made-1.desktop alacarte-made.desktop brasero cgmail defaults.list empathy evolution evolution-mail firefox foobillard f-spot gcalctool gimp gnome-search-tool Google-googleearth.desktop lastfm mimeapps.list mimeinfo.cache miro openoffice.org-draw sun-java6-javaws thunderbird Track Mania Nations For Ever.desktop transmission tsclient ubuntuone-client-applet userapp-sh-UTV15U.desktop vinagre wine wine-browsedrive wine-extension-chm.desktop wine-extension-gbx.desktop wine-extension-hlp.desktop wine-extension-htm.desktop wine-extension-html.desktop wine-extension-ini.desktop wine-extension-rtf.desktop wine-extension-txt.desktop wine-extension-wri.desktop wine-extension-xml.desktop xsane Changing the ' firefox ' file to ' firefox.desktop ' allows me to change the property values of firefox in alacarte. On the other hand, every file in the /usr/share/applications folder does have a *.desktop extension. Whatever it is that is responsible for creating *.desktop extensions is failing to do so during ubuntu installation, and while using apt-get. I used command line apt-get to install my favorite applications from the ubuntu repositories. I have a few applications listed there that I have installed using another method... " sh GoogleEarthLinux.run " for example. So it looks like I will have to rename each file (application entry) in the ls /home/james/.local/share/applications directory to ****.desktop if I want to edit them in alacarte. Thanks. -- I can not edit menu entries in alacarte at random - Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/499754 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
