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Main Menu Editor alacarte is Completely Broken in xubuntu 12.10

SYSTEM: Fresh install of xubuntu 12.10 (i386) using the official xubuntu
.iso image, fully updated as of today.

The 'Main Menu' editor (alacarte) is completely broken in xubuntu 12.10.
Changes in the xubuntu Applications Menu made with alacarte are not
effected.  For example:

-- Ticking/unticking boxes in alacarte does not stick.
-- New menu items created with alacarte are not put in place.
-- Menu items deleted with alacarte remain in place.
-- Moving items from one menu folder to another with alacarte no longer works.
-- .desktop files of any menu item opened (with or without (!) change) in alacarte simply accumulate in /home/[user]/.local/share/applications, without further effect.
-- sudo alacarte in a terminal no longer works.

It appears that alacarte is dependent on an item (gnome-desktop-item-
edit) provided by the gnome-panel package which is not not compiled with
alacarte and which is not otherwise installed under xubuntu.  (See also
Launchpad Bug #656735 --
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/656735).
However, the full gnome-panel is an alien package under xfce, and it
should not be installed under xubuntu as it pulls in a mass of redundant
and undesirable non-xfce gnome desktop functionality.  (Note:  exo-utils
for xfce,which provides exo-desktop-item-edit, IS fully installed but
this does not resolve the above bugs.)

Apart from these bugs, alacarte has limited functionality, it is prone
to crashing, and it is awkward to handle.  Many of these problems have a
very long history and are never properly addressed.

It seems better if the alacarte Applications Menu Editor in xubuntu
would be replaced as standard (or at least as an option through the
(x)ubuntu repos) by LXMenuEditor (http://lxmed.sourceforge.net/).

** Affects: alacarte (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: alacarte editor lxmed menu xubuntu
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Main Menu Editor alacarte is Completely Broken in xubuntu 12.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079953
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