I can confirm that the updated version of alacarte currently in quantal- proposed does restore some functionality as regards the first three items mentioned in my earlier post (tick boxes, create new menu items, delete menu items).
However -- Drag and drop of a menu item within a menu folder (rearrange menu item order) still does not work. -- Drag and drop of a menu item from one menu folder to another still does not work. -- Moving a menu item up or down within a menu folder with the arrow keys can only be done one position at the time. This takes about 15 seconds the be effected per step. Until this step takes effect, further clicks on the up or down arrow keys are ignored. During this process alacarte claims 95%-100% of CPU and over 50MiB of memory for a fresh standard installation of xubuntu 12.10 with only some 15 additional menu items. -- Ticking or unticking a menu item box, adding new menu items, and deleting menu items makes similarly excessive time, CPU and memory demands. In summary, the alacarte update works in a way, but slower than my pet escargot which is not à la carte. At the same time alacarte claims the whole system and turns it into a pressure cooker. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alacarte in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079953 Title: Main Menu Editor alacarte is Completely Broken in xubuntu 12.10 Status in “alacarte” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Main Menu Editor alacarte is Completely Broken in xubuntu 12.10 SYSTEM: Fresh install of xubuntu 12.10 (i386) using the official xubuntu .iso image, fully updated as of today. The 'Main Menu' editor (alacarte) is completely broken in xubuntu 12.10. Changes in the xubuntu Applications Menu made with alacarte are not effected. For example: -- Ticking/unticking boxes in alacarte does not stick. -- New menu items created with alacarte are not put in place. -- Menu items deleted with alacarte remain in place. -- Moving items from one menu folder to another with alacarte no longer works. -- .desktop files of any menu item opened (with or without (!) change) in alacarte simply accumulate in /home/[user]/.local/share/applications, without further effect. -- sudo alacarte in a terminal no longer works. It appears that alacarte is dependent on an item (gnome-desktop-item- edit) provided by the gnome-panel package which is not not compiled with alacarte and which is not otherwise installed under xubuntu. (See also Launchpad Bug #656735 -- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/656735). However, the full gnome-panel is an alien package under xfce, and it should not be installed under xubuntu as it pulls in a mass of redundant and undesirable non-xfce gnome desktop functionality. (Note: exo-utils for xfce,which provides exo-desktop-item-edit, IS fully installed but this does not resolve the above bugs.) Apart from these bugs, alacarte has limited functionality, it is prone to crashing, and it is awkward to handle. Many of these problems have a very long history and are never properly addressed. It seems better if the alacarte Applications Menu Editor in xubuntu would be replaced as standard (or at least as an option through the (x)ubuntu repos) by LXMenuEditor (http://lxmed.sourceforge.net/). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/1079953/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
