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[Mary Gardiner <826049@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  alacarte calls /usr/bin/gnome-desktop-item-edit in a subprocess in order
  to install new menu items. However, /usr/bin/gnome-desktop-item-edit is
  in the gnome-panel package, which is only a Recommends: for the alacarte
  package rather than marked as a true dependency. People who have not
  installed gnome-panel will thus not be able to use core Alacarte
  functionality.
+ 
+ Symptoms:
+ If you run alacarte from the command line, you will see an error like this when you click on "New Item":
+   File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 311, in on_new_item_button_clicked
+     process = subprocess.Popen(['gnome-desktop-item-edit', file_path], env=os.environ)
+   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
+     errread, errwrite)
+   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1239, in _execute_child
+     raise child_exception
+ OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
+ 
+ If you run alacarte from a menu, you will simply find that when you
+ click "New Item" nothing happens: no dialog box for the item appears.
  
  Workaround: install gnome-panel through your package manager
  
  Fix: three possibilities:
  (1) alacarte should depend on gnome-panel
  (2) gnome-desktop-item-edit program should be in the alacarte package
  (3) gnome-desktop-item-edit program should be in some third package, on which alacarte should in turn depend
  
  Original description:
  
  Crashed while trying to make a new item in main menu and would not
  create new item.
  
  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: alacarte 0.13.2-2ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic 3.0.1
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Aug 14 00:15:20 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/alacarte
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python -OOt /usr/bin/alacarte
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/alacarte']
  SourcePackage: alacarte
  Title: alacarte crashed with OSError in _execute_child(): [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-12 (0 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

** Summary changed:

- Dependency problem: alacarte crashed with OSError because gnome-desktop-item-edit not found
+ Dependency problem: alacarte crashes on 'New Item' with OSError because gnome-desktop-item-edit not found

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Title:
  Dependency problem: alacarte crashes on 'New Item' with OSError
  because gnome-desktop-item-edit not found

Status in Alacarte Menu Editor:
  New
Status in “alacarte” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  alacarte calls /usr/bin/gnome-desktop-item-edit in a subprocess in
  order to install new menu items. However, /usr/bin/gnome-desktop-item-
  edit is in the gnome-panel package, which is only a Recommends: for
  the alacarte package rather than marked as a true dependency. People
  who have not installed gnome-panel will thus not be able to use core
  Alacarte functionality.

  Symptoms:
  If you run alacarte from the command line, you will see an error like this when you click on "New Item":
    File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 311, in on_new_item_button_clicked
      process = subprocess.Popen(['gnome-desktop-item-edit', file_path], env=os.environ)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
      errread, errwrite)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1239, in _execute_child
      raise child_exception
  OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

  If you run alacarte from a menu, you will simply find that when you
  click "New Item" nothing happens: no dialog box for the item appears.

  Workaround: install gnome-panel through your package manager

  Fix: three possibilities:
  (1) alacarte should depend on gnome-panel
  (2) gnome-desktop-item-edit program should be in the alacarte package
  (3) gnome-desktop-item-edit program should be in some third package, on which alacarte should in turn depend

  Original description:

  Crashed while trying to make a new item in main menu and would not
  create new item.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: alacarte 0.13.2-2ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic 3.0.1
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Aug 14 00:15:20 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/alacarte
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python -OOt /usr/bin/alacarte
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/alacarte']
  SourcePackage: alacarte
  Title: alacarte crashed with OSError in _execute_child(): [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-12 (0 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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