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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Leo H (leo-h-hildebrandt):

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

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


** Tags: alacarte delete hide
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alacarte does not delete deleted application menu entries
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245300
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