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When creating a new menu entry in the Applications Menu of Xubuntu using
the Alacarte Menu Editor (alacarte 3.10.0-1) then alacarte does not
enable the writing of a "Categories=<>;" attribute in the new .desktop
file created in /home/<>/local/share/applications/.

Without a recognized and meaningful "Categories=<>;" attribute, the new
menu entry is relegated by default to the non-specific "Other" menu
category in the Applications Menu of Xubuntu.

Moving the newly-created menu entry in question to a more meaningful
Applications Menu category (such as, eg, "Applications", "Office",
"Systems", etc) by dragging and dropping then fails in alacarte due to
the very absence of any "Categories=<>;" attribute in the .desktop file.

Instead,

First, when creating a new menu entry in, for example, "Applications",
then alacarte should write a corresponding "Categories=<>;" attribute
line in the newly-made .desktop file.

Second, when dragging and dropping the newly-created menu entry in
alacarte from, for example, "Applications" to, for instance, "System",
then alacarte should amend the "Categories=<>;" attribute line in the
.desktop file accordingly.


Note 1: If alacarte cannot do these things automatically, then it should at least allow the user to choose the Application Menu category, say, from a drop-down list, when creating or editing a menu entry, and write this choice to the corresponding .desktop file in the form of a suitable "Categories=<>;" attribute line.

Note 2: Resolving this issue by manually editing .desktop files, of
course, wholly defeats the very raison d'être of Menu Editor programs
such as alacarte.


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System: xubuntu 13.10 32-bit fully up-to-date

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


** Tags: alacarte category edit menu
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alacarte fails to write a proper "Categories=<>;" line to .desktop files
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245315
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