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alacarte package

Moving menu items between categories in Alacarte doesn't work. (Edgy)

Bug #64960 reported by Tom5760 on 2006-10-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #64264: gnome-menus doesn't send notification for new .desktop files. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	alacarte (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: alacarte

Steps to reproduce:

1.) Open menu editor with a right click on "Applications -> Edit Menus"
2.) Click and drag a menu item to another category.
3.) The menu item will disappear, go to the category you moved the item to.
4.) The item will not be in that category. Go back to the original category.
5.) The menu item will be back in its original category.

This is running the current Edgy 6.10 beta.

If there is any more information I can provide, let me know.

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Pete Ryland (pdr) wrote on 2006-10-14:

I can confirm that the item does not disappear from the original submenu, but I've found that it does indeed turn up in the new submenu ok. But dragging to, say, the Application main menu does not work.

Are you using English menus?

Changed in alacarte:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Pete Ryland (pdr) wrote on 2006-10-14:

Fixes some alacarte drag and drop issues Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain)

Can you try patching with the attached diff please?

* Download to /tmp
* run the following to apply the patch:

cd /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte
sudo cp MainWindow.py MainWindow.py.OLD
sudo patch < /tmp/alacarte_MainWindow.py_dragndropfix20061014.diff

Try again. Does that fix the problem?

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Tom5760 (tom5760) wrote on 2006-10-14: Re: [Bug 64960] Re: Moving menu items between categories in Alacarte doesn't work. (Edgy)

I can confirm that your patch fixed the problem I was having. My test
was dragging OpenOffice Draw from the graphics menu to the office
menu. Before this would not work in the manner I said before, but now
it works fine.

Yes I am using English menus.

Thanks a lot Pete, good job! =D

On 10/14/06, Pete Ryland <email address hidden> wrote:
> Can you try patching with the attached diff please?
>
> * Download to /tmp
> * run the following to apply the patch:
>
> cd /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte
> sudo cp MainWindow.py MainWindow.py.OLD
> sudo patch < /tmp/alacarte_MainWindow.py_dragndropfix20061014.diff
>
> Try again. Does that fix the problem?
>
> ** Attachment added: "Fixes some alacarte drag and drop issues"
> http://librarian.launchpad.net/4838803/alacarte_MainWindow.py_dragndropfix20061014.diff
>
> --
> Moving menu items between categories in Alacarte doesn't work. (Edgy)
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/64960
>

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Pete Ryland (pdr) wrote on 2006-10-20:

I've marked this as a dup now, since this behaviour was caused by a bug in gnome-menus (also now with patch). The above patch works because I changed the semantics of a drag-and-drop to perform a "move" operation, which doesn't create any new .desktop files. The "copy" operation was broken because of the gnome-menus bug. Travis has indicated that he wants to keep drag-and-drop performing a "copy".