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 ~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu file does not seem to be
updated in the way I would expect. For instance I create a new Item in
the Games menu in alacarte, the generated .desktop file looks like this:
cat ~/.local/share/applications/alacarte-made-1.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=fheroes2
Terminal=false
Name=HOMM2
Exec=/home/dan/Games/fheroes2/fheroes2.x86_64
Type=Application
Icon=/home/dan/Games/fheroes2/image/fheroes2_32x32.png
Which is all correct, but I don't see an entry in xfce-applications.menu:
<Menu>
<Name>Games</Name>
<Directory>xfce-games.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Game</Category>
</Include>
</Menu>
If I manually edit the file I can add in the .desktop entry and it will appear
in the Games menu correctly:
<Menu>
<Name>Games</Name>
<Directory>xfce-games.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Game</Category>
<Filename>alacarte-made-1.desktop</Filename>
</Include>
</Menu>
I hope the above explanation is clear as this behaviour is a bit
puzzling to me.
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