Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: alacarte
Editing a menu item which has an ampersand in it (&), properly encoded
in the XML as & before, removes this XML encoding, meaning that the
user gets invalid XML, and the menu vanishes. This is Not a Good Thing.
It means that the menu editor just doesn't open again... so I ran it in
a terminal and got this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main
app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 48, in
__init__
self.editor = MenuEditor()
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 36, in
__init__
self.__loadMenus()
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 48, in
__loadMenus
self.applications.dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(self.applications.path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1918, in parse
return expatbuilder.parse(file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse
result = builder.parseFile(fp)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile
parser.Parse(buffer, 0)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 10, column
61
The instance in question was a Google Chrome application item,
http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&shva=1#inbox. This converted to the
following line in ~/.config/menus/applications.menu:
<Filename>chrome-
http___mail.google.com_mail__ui=2&shva=1#inbox.desktop</Filename>
I disabled it in the menu editor and everything vanished - the "amp;"
had vanished, leaving malformed XML.
** Affects: alacarte (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Editing item with ampersand breaks XML
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533050
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