Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: alacarte (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
alacarte does not delete deleted application menu entries
Status in “alacarte” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
When a menu entry in the Applications Menu of Xubuntu is deleted using
the Alacarte Menu Editor, then alacarte (3.10.0-1) does NOT delete its
.desktop file. Instead alacarte writes a new "Hidden=true" line in its
.desktop file in /home/<>/local/share/applications/ and it only
deletes the entry from the list of menu entries which are shown in
alacarte itself.
This is wrong. Delete and Hidden are two different things:
.desktop files with the attribute "Hidden=true" should be shown in
alacarte as unticked menu entries.
Further, by failing actually to delete, alacarte populates
/home/<>/local/share/applications/ with increasing numbers of obsolete
and dysfunctional .desktop entries. These are difficult to identify
and delete manually when browsing /home/<>/local/share/applications/,
because alacarte gives all .desktop files which it makes non-specific
generic names of the type alacarte-made-nn.desktop.
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System: xubuntu 13.10 32-bit fully up-to-date
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