alacarte needs to depend on gnome-panel

Does the problem persist if you switch back to gnome-panel?

What does the following mean? Нет такого файла или каталога

Problem is decide then i switch back to gnome-panel. But i don't use gnome-panel and I remove her with "aptitude remove gnome-panel".

When i press button "properties", in terminal:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 626, in on_properties_button_clicked
    self.on_edit_properties_activate(None)
  File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 383, in on_edit_properties_activate
    process = subprocess.Popen(['gnome-desktop-item-edit', file_path], env=os.environ)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 623, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1141, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Hi Anton,

I did not understand what you meant by saying: "Problem is decide then i switch back to gnome-panel."

In order to work on this bug, we need to learn which steps are necessary to reproduce it.

As a first step, could you please reinstall gnome-panel and deactivate awn to see if the problem is still there?

Thanks, alex

Hi Alexander,

Sorry, my English is bad.

When i reinstall gnome-panel (with dependences: evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common gnome-applets gnome-applets-data gnome-panel-data indicator-applet indicator-messages indicator-sound libedataserverui1.2-8 libgee2 libido-0.1-0 ), my problem is solving. I can edit menu items, add launch button on desktop, use Alt+F1, Alt+F2 (this keys, don't work without gnome-panel too) again.

Maybe problem in some library, which are dependence of gnome-panel?

Thanks, Anton

gnome-desktop-item-edit is a program provided by the gnome-panel package which alacarte uses to display the item editor used for editing menu items. The alacarte package needs to depend on gnome-panel to ensure this is installed.

Very strange dependence. Ok, i install gnome-panel, but it's not true solution. I think, it's necessary to make package of all programs, which alacarte is needed.

I installed gnome-panel and it solved.

I solve the problem by adding "gnome-desktop-item-edit" from package "gnome-panel" in the package "alacarte" (just rebuild the package).

I can confirm this is the same on 11.10.
The user still manually have to install gnome-panel to get alacarte working.

I can confirm that this exact same bug STILL exists on 12.04 !

I'm amazed that this bug still isn't fixed - it entirely prevents adding new menu entries.

I can confirm this bug is still in 12.04 x64. Unable to edit or add items in main menu.

Hasn't been fixed for more than 2 years! Why can't we just add the dependency to the Ubuntu package instead of waiting for the Debian people? This obviously is an acceptable workaround.

Hi all,i n case this problem persists - try the patch here.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/1089438

This is applicable for XFCE, LXDE.

Now when we tell other people that bugs in open-source projects are fixed rapidly, they can laugh ...

Seriously, Alacarte needs to have its own item editor, it's non-sense to install a deprecated package to get the job done.

Just copy-paste the damn piece of code from gnome-panel into alacarte.

This bug was fixed in the package alacarte - 3.7.90-0ubuntu1

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alacarte (3.7.90-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * New upstream release.
  * debian/control.in:
    - Drop no longer needed dependency on gnome-panel (LP: #656735)
  * debian/patches/git_use_glib-gerror.patch: Dropped, applied in new version

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * debian/control:
    - Use standards version 3.9.4
  * debian/patches/40-call-exo-d-i-e-on-xfce.patch:
  * debian/patches/50-xdg-menu-prefix.patch:
    - No longer applicable
 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:58:04 -0400

Problem still exists in 13.10 64-bit Xubuntu without gnome-panel (I use xfce4 not gnome)
alacarte 3.10.0